News:BIDMC Physician Opens Mail, Finds $1 Million

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(WikiDoc) - $1 Million was not what Beth Israel Deaconess primary care physician Jerry Smetana expected to find in his mail recently, but there it was: an extraordinary gift from his former friend and philanthropist Harvey Picker. Smetana was Picker's primary care physician, and over the course of the last two decades Picker had developed an interest in his doctor's research. In time, he made a couple donations to Smetana and his projects. When Picker died last year, Smetana wondered what would happen to his research. Then he got a strange letter in the mail. Click here to read the rest of the story...