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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
May 26, 2008
BOSTON — Dr. Erwin Hirsch, a renowned trauma surgeon and longtime chief of Boston Medical Center’s trauma surgery unit, drowned in a boating accident Friday. He was 72.
Hirsch died after the dinghy he was in capsized in 48-degree waters off the Maine coast in Rockport Harbor....