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Harvard death

Harvard death
 n.— «When I was an intern, we used to refer to this as a “Harvard Death”: you kept pumping meds until all the cultures were negative and test results were normal but the patient still succumbed.» —by C.J. Peters Virus Hunter Apr. 13, 1998. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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