Dr. William Shearer, Who Treated the ‘Bubble Boy,’ Dies at 81

Thursday, October 18, 2018 - 12:20 in Health & Medicine

“What he gave us was a powerful lesson in many areas of medicine,” Dr. Shearer said of his young patient, who lived in a sterile plastic cocoon.

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