This is an I-Heart podcast.

What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.

Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?

Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.

From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.

What difference at this point does it make?

Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Music This is Lee Habib with our American stories.

And once again, we're going to hear from our resident doctor on the show, Dr. E. Wesley E. Lee, a professor of medicine

at Vanderbilt University. And here's Dr. Ealy sharing his moving story, what I learned from a dying

patient.

I had a patient recently whose death was particularly harrowing.

39 years old, PhD, scientist, brilliant.

She was sent to the ICU team as a fascinoma,

meaning a person with a constellation of problems the doctors couldn't figure out.

This woman had been physically fine until two months earlier, and now she was

growing progressively short of breath, had a little blood in her urine, and had pain in her toes,

which were turning blue and red in the cold. Imaging showed that she had a growth on her aortic

valve and that sections of her kidneys were dying.

The doctors at the outside hospital had diagnosed her with blood clots in her lungs and started her on a blood thinner, but her condition kept worsening.

As the day progressed, we started all the needed tests and interventions to help sleuth out the problems and fix them.

Hours into my periodic conversations with her and her mother and sister, her mother mentioned that my patient was agnostic.

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