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Posted 6/13/2025 by Melisa Hayes

Dr. Wilkerson Quoted in Los Angeles Times Story

Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Emergency Medicine physician at the University of Maryland Medical Center and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the UM School of Medicine, is quoted in this Los Angeles Times story about a mysterious death related to a dental surgery. The death was due to a rare blood disorder called methemoglobinemia.