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CARDIAC ARREST HAPPENS WHEN HEART SUDDENLY STOPS

June 26, 2009

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…is the chyron MSNBC just ran as Norah O’Donnell interviewed Dr. Dan Simon, chief of cardiovascular medicine at Case Medical Center in Cleveland, about the speculative diagnosis that Michael Jackson’s death was caused by “cardiac arrest.” Thanks for that.

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Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.