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Dr. C. Miller Fisher; neurologist advanced study of strokes

By J.M. Lawrence

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 01, 2012

Dr. C. Miller Fisher, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, pointed the way toward stroke treatment and prevention, illuminating the relationship between strokes and blood clots in the hearts of patients with atrial fibrillation and showing the relationship between stroke and narrowing of the carotid artery. He began making his groundbreaking findings in the early 1950s. “One new thing after another cropped up,’’ Dr. Fisher said in an interview with the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

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