Doctors Admit They May Have Caused Sharon's Stroke...

First Posted: 03/28/08 03:43 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 12:50 PM ET

Associated Press:

Doctors have admitted making a mistake when they treated then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with large doses of blood thinners after a mild stroke, according to a TV report broadcast Thursday.

Sharon has been comatose since suffering a massive stroke on Jan. 4. Channel 2 TV quoted doctors who treated Sharon at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital as saying the anticoagulants given him after a minor blood clot two weeks earlier might have caused the debilitating hemorrhagic stroke.

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