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Title:
LETTER TO CHC RECORDS ROOM, SUBJECT: ( 40-003 ) ( REDACTED ) ( CASE NO. 40-003 )
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Subject Terms:
HREX; BLOOD; HEMORRHOIDS; INFORM; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN; PLUTONIUM; PLUTONIUM INJECTION EXPERIMENT; RECTUM
Document Location:
Location - DOE/NNSA NUCLEAR TESTING ARCHIVE Address - P.O. Box 98521 City - Las Vegas State - NV Zip - 89193-8521 Phone - (702)794-5106 Fax - (702)862-4240 Email - NTA@NV.DOE.GOV
Document Type:
CORRESPONDENCE, LETTERS, MEMOS
Publication Date:
1977 Nov 15
Declassification Status:
Never classified
Document Pages:
0001
Accession Number:
NV0700542
OpenNet Entry Date:
1994 Aug 27
OpenNet Modified Date:
2017 Dec 21
Description/Abstract:
MEMO TO CHR RECORDS ROOM. DATED NOVEMBER 15, 1974 FROM A. M. BRUES, M.D. SUBJECT (REDACTED) (40-003). DISCUSSION WITH DEWEY H. ROBERTS TO INFORM HIS PATIENT OF A PLUTONIUM INJECTION RECEIVED DURING HIS 1947 OPERATION. PATIENT WAS IN TO SEE DR. ROBERTS THE DAY BEFORE AND WAS INFORMED; HE SEEMED INTERESTED BUT UNMOVED BY THIS INFORMATION. A. M. BURES, M.D. REQUESTED A NOTE STATING THESE FACTS. RECEIVED NOTE FROM DR. ROBERTS ADDRESSED TO A. M. BRUES, M.D. AND WALTER WEYZEN, M.D. DISCUSSING PATIENT BEING SEEN AT D.H. ROBERTS, D.O. AT MILFORD, TEXAS FOR BLOOD IN HIS MORNING STOOL. ROCHESTER RECORD INDICATED A HISTORY OF BLEEDING FROM THE RECTUM; THAT SIGMOIDOSCOPY AND BARIUM ENEMA WERE NEGATIVE AS WAS A TEST FOR OCCULT BLOOD. PATIENT HAS HEMORRHOIDS THAT WERE CONSIDERED THE SOURCE OF THE BLOOD NOTED BY HIM PREVIOUSLY.