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Doctors don't buy 'stress' story: U.S. experts said Cuba isn't telling the truth about the causes of Castro's medical problems. Several doctors said a bleeding ulcer was most likely.
Byline: John Dorschner
Aug. 2--AND JACOB GOLDSTEIN Cuba's official explanation that stress caused Fidel Castro's intestinal bleeding is flat-out wrong, medical experts said Tuesday. "Stress is not playing a role here as far as I'm concerned," said Jeffrey B. Raskin, the Unversity of Miami's interim chief of gastroenterology. Seven gastroenterologists from South Florida and around the country said they didn't accept the explanation in the purported letter from Castro, released Monday night, that said weeks of hard work and travel created "extreme stress" that "provoked an acute intestinal crisis, with sustained bleeding, that obliged me to face a complicated surgical operation." Experts said stress might exacerbate an existing medical problem but wouldn't by itself cause "sustained bleeding." All the gastroenterologists interviewed said the statement did not include enough information to determine the cause of the bleeding. "That's as vague as…
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