Elizabeth Karlin

July 25, 2016

“Dr. Liz Karlin, that lovely soul, dead of a brain tumor at fifty-four. Happened in a matter of a couple months. “Oh, you know Liz, she hated doctors,” said our friend Donna Shalala, who is now Secretary of HHS.”

Molly Ivins, “A Life-Affirming Person,” The Progressive 62 (1998): 46.

Also Published In

Molly Ivins, “Dr. Liz Karlin,” in Who Let the Dogs In? Incredible Political Animals I Have Known (New York: Random House, 2004), 337-40.

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