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Jan 2023
40m 45s

“The Angel of Death” Richard Angelo

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In the 1980s, Richard Angelo was a Long Island native working as a nurse in the ICU. He’d found his passion — emergency medicine — in college. But somewhere along the way, his drive to be a hero took an ugly detour.


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