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Noted black lung doctor and activist Donald Rasmussen died
Doctor Donald L. Rasmussen (February 24, 1928 - July 23, 2015), black lung crusader, was born in Colorado. He came to West Virginia in 1962 as associate chief of internal medicine at Miners Memorial Hospital, in Beckley. Throughout the 1960s, he a...
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