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UM expert doubts stress caused Castro's bleeding

The University of Miami's top expert in intestinal disorders said this morning that he had serious doubts about Cuba's official explanation that ''stress'' caused severe bleeding that would have required complicated surgery for Fidel Castro.

''Stress is not playing a role here as far as I'm concerned,'' said Jeffrey B. Raskin, the UM medical school's interim chief of the division of gastroenterology.

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