Ian McLaughlin stepped down from the dais in a hotel conference room in Atlanta where he had just delivered a talk on a Centers for Disease Control project he’d been leading for more than year.
Shaking hands and chatting with audience members, many of them health care professionals, he suddenly felt unwell.
One person, then another, asked him a series of questions McLaughlin would later understand to be part of the field test for someone suffering a stroke.
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