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A Bullet, A President And An ER

Many historians have debated how our country might be different today if Lincoln had lived to see the country through the critical Reconstruction period that followed the Civil War. In the debut story from the podcast Sick, our reporter Jake Harper asks a different question: if he’d been given modern medical treatment, could Lincoln’s life have been saved? 

Listen to find out.