seeking out a sinus specialist for her breathing problem seemed logical. the first time i heard about him was when she called me. she was going to have sinus surgery and she needed a ride to and from the surgery. dr. weinberger s diagnosis? sinusitis, nasal polyps, deviated septum, all problems he told phyllis that could be cure with surgery. did your sister get better after the surgery? no. she got progressively worse after the surgery. by thanksgiving, just six weeks after her surgery with weinberger, phyllis barnes was gasping for breath. repeated follow-up visits to the clinic brought no relief. her family feared she might have pneumonia. i had to call the ambulance one night to have her taken to the emergency room because she couldn t breathe. shawn barnes, phyllis daughter, was only 16 at the time. she did end up pulling through, but it was a hard time to get through. within days of leaving the emergency room, phyllis was again gasping for breath. so in decembe
you thought it might be allergies or a cold. yeah. it could have been a number of things. her voice was raspy. she had a sore throat. but perhaps the most troubling symptom for phyllis, a lifelong smoker, was that she had recently begun coughing up blood. i believe when she went to dr. weinberger she told him she was a smoker. i don t think she tried to hide that from anybody. how did she find out about mark weinberger? i believe one of her co-workers may have seen billboards. the nose dr. uh-huh. in hindsight, going to the self-proclaimed nose doctor may have been a mistake. but since phyllis had a long history of sinus problems, seeking out a sinus specialist for her breathing problem seemed logical. the first time i heard about him was when she called me. she was going to have sinus surgery and she needed a ride to and from the surgery. dr. weinberger s diagnosis? sinusitis, nasal polyps,
and from the surgery. dr. weinberger s diagnosis? sinusitis, nasal polyps, deviated septum, all problems he told phyllis that could be cure with surgery. did your sister get better after the surgery? no. she got progressively worse after the surgery. by thanksgiving, just six weeks after her surgery with weinberger, phyllis barnes was gasping for breath. repeated follow-up visits to the clinic brought no relief. her family feared she might have pneumonia. i had to call the ambulance one night to have her taken to the emergency room because she couldn t breathe. shawn barnes, phyllis daughter, was only 16 at the time. she did end up pulling through, but it was a hard time to get through. within days of leaving the emergency room, phyllis was again gasping for breath. so in december 2001 she turned to another ear nose and throat doctor for relief. the new doctor immediately suspected something serious. her breathing was ragged and a
narrator: it could have been a number of things. her voice was raspy, she had a sore throat. but perhaps the most troubling symptom for phyllis, a lifelong smoker, was that she had recently begun coughing up blood. i believe that when she went to dr. weinberger she told him she was a smoker. i don t think she tried to hide that from anybody. how did she find out about mark weinberger? i believe one of her coworkers may have seen billboards. the nose doctor. mm-hmm. narrator: in hindsight, going to the self-proclaimed nose doctor may have been a mistake. but since phyllis had had a long history of sinus problems, seeking out a sinus specialist for her breathing problems seemed logical. the first time i heard about him was when she called me up. she was going to have sinus surgery and she needed a ride to and from the surgery. narrator: dr. weinberger s diagnosis, sinusitis, nasal polyps, deviated septum, all problems he told phyllis that could be cured with surgery.
what are they telling you? well, listen, there is e he cloud of uncertainty in the 9/11 community and cloud of uncertainty those who work under dr. crane. how urinic the doctors that fight to keep us alive and treat us, we re fighting to keep their jobs. we re paying them back by continuing to go to d.c., and great champions like carol maloney and kirsten gillibrand. we re close but not popping the cork yet. we still have to monitor over the next 72, 96 hours but we re in a better place than we were last week and that s reassuring. representative, i want to go to the doctor quickly, what sort of patients are you seeing, what are some of the afflictions? at the beginning early on we saw the patients who had the sort of inflammatory irritative conditions, sinusitis, asthma, irritation of the stomach, but now we re in a real chronic disease phase. we re seeing many more people with cancer.