is the way I heard it.

According to Peter, Dr. Hank was America's favorite physician.

Thanks in part to the many celebrities who publicly thanked him for saving their lives.

Ronald Reagan, Nicole Kidman, Halle Berry, Ed Koch, Carrie Fisher,

Ellen Barkin, Cher, all of them were deeply grateful to the charismatic doctor whose life-saving

procedure kept them alive.

According to Peter, it was Dr. Hank's charisma and his outstanding reputation that allowed

him to advance his next big, life-saving idea, a medical breakthrough no less important

than the procedure that made him a household name.

The year was 1993, and Halle Wood was reeling from the impact of AIDS.

Dozens of actors and artists were dying, hundreds more were infected, and many believe

the government wasn't taking the crisis seriously.

According to Peter, Dr. Hank told Joanna Carson, one of Johnny's former wives, that he

could kill the HIV virus.

All he needed was a few months of human trials and $600,000.

Joanna Carson not only offered to host a fundraiser at her home in Beverly Hills, she invited

a few close friends who had lost loved ones to the disease, friends like Amy Irving, Estelle

Gettie, John Voit, Ed Asner, all of them eager to help find a cure.

According to Peter, the A-listers nodded appreciatively as Dr. Hank discussed the barriers of medical

research.

They murmured their assent as Dr. Hank described the bureaucratic nightmare of dealing with

the AMA, the CDC, and the FDA, all of whom had delayed his research with ownerless compliance

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