Maine Voices: New outbreaks stir memories of long night with polio patient - Press Herald

Maine Voices: New outbreaks stir memories of long night with polio patient  Press Herald

As a young intern, just out of medical school, I helped care for one of the last patients with active polio at Maine Medical Center. Summers were scary times in ...



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