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Veteran, suffering for decades, hears magic words: ‘I can fix you’

The day Gulf War veteran Michael Haynes met surgeon Evert Eriksson, M.D., with broken ribs from coughing, Haynes was frustrated, fatigued and frightened.
Frustrated that his lung problems, caused by burn pits, sarin gas and other chemicals, had gone on for years, getting worse and worse.

Fatigued, because he’d been coughing so much that he could barely sleep.

Frightened that he’d never get better.

But his conversation with Eriksson in the MUSC Health Emergency Department in Charleston would be the beginning of a process that would change all of that. Haynes had come there desperately hoping for help.

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