THE CASE OF “MARCELLUS” : A SYPHILIS EXPERIMENT

Irony and happenstance occur sometimes when you least expect it. Not too long after a trip from Montgomery and Tuskegee, Alabama I spoke with my co-worker and she discussed how her father’s dementia was getting worse. At this point he had been missing for days and a silver alert was activated. For the sake of confidentiality and anonymity we will identify her father as Marcellus. After retaining her…