The Washington Post
By Peter Whoriskey, Published: July 19, 2012
Bill O'Leary/WASHINGTON POST - Sherry Lenox’s husband died hours after taking an anemia drug , although cancer was the official cause.
On the day Jim Lenox got his last injection, the frail 54-year-old cancer patient was waiting to be discharged from the Baltimore Washington Medical Center. He’d put on his black leather coat. Then a nurse said he needed another dose of anemia drugs.
His wife, Sherry, thought that seemed odd, because his blood readings had been close to normal, but Lenox trusted the doctors. After the nurse pumped the drug into his left shoulder, the former repairman for Washington Gas said he felt good enough to play basketball.
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