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After barely making it through Rutgers Law School, George Baxter
practiced law from his 1975 Oldsmobile, bouncing from court to
court taking per diem work from any lawyer who would give it to
him. Then he met Bill Snyder who desperately needed a lawyer
because he'd been infected with AIDS from a transfusion he received
during heart surgery. Racing against time and poorly financed,
George began a six-year legal battle against the
billion-dollar-a-year blood industry that infected his client- as
well as 29,000 other people - with AIDS. EVERY LAST DROP is written
in the first person as the plaintiff's lawyer in the landmark trial
Snyder v. American Association of Blood Banks. The trial exposed
how the United States blood industry disseminated false
information, hyjacked the FDA, and conspired to delay AIDS testing
to save money, which resulted in the most devastating public health
disaster in U.S. history. George's personal struggle surfaces
throughout this narrative, alongside the stories of patients who
suffered from AIDS but fought to stay alive for their exhausting
trials. The case fueled a congressional investigation into
dangerous blood industry practices and Federal Food And Drug
Administration conflicts of interest that allowed this to happen.
EVERY LAST DROP has a David and Goliath paradigm that centers on
the universal themes of persistence, friendship, and the importance
of trust over money, especially in the wake of a disaster. Dr.
Donald P. Francis, formerly with the Centers for Disease Control
AIDS Task Force and Dr. Marcus Conant, two of the country's leading
Public health and AIDS experts, have written the introductions.
After barely making it through Rutgers Law School, George Baxter
practiced law from his 1975 Oldsmobile, bouncing from court to
court taking per diem work from any lawyer who would give it to
him. Then he met Bill Snyder who desperately needed a lawyer
because he'd been infected with AIDS from a transfusion he received
during heart surgery. Racing against time and poorly financed,
George began a six-year legal battle against the
billion-dollar-a-year blood industry that infected his client- as
well as 29,000 other people - with AIDS. EVERY LAST DROP is written
in the first person as the plaintiff's lawyer in the landmark trial
Snyder v. American Association of Blood Banks. The trial exposed
how the United States blood industry disseminated false
information, hyjacked the FDA, and conspired to delay AIDS testing
to save money, which resulted in the most devastating public health
disaster in U.S. history. George's personal struggle surfaces
throughout this narrative, alongside the stories of patients who
suffered from AIDS but fought to stay alive for their exhausting
trials. The case fueled a congressional investigation into
dangerous blood industry practices and Federal Food And Drug
Administration conflicts of interest that allowed this to happen.
EVERY LAST DROP has a David and Goliath paradigm that centers on
the universal themes of persistence, friendship, and the importance
of trust over money, especially in the wake of a disaster. Dr.
Donald P. Francis, formerly with the Centers for Disease Control
AIDS Task Force and Dr. Marcus Conant, two of the country's leading
Public health and AIDS experts, have written the introductions.
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