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A nurse becomes caught in a government experiment to withhold treatment for syphilis from a group of black patients. From the David Feldshuh play.
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Faced with having their federal funding cut off entirely, the staff of a syphilis treatment center in Tuskegee, Alabama is forced to institute a government-mandated research project in which they study - without the patients' knowledge - the effects of the disease on untreated black patients. Based on the true story of the decades-long Tuskegee experiment, this HBO-produced drama is adapted from Dr. David Feldshuh's award-winning stage play.
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