Dr. Brookner is based on real-life doctor Linda Laubenstein, an early HIV/AIDS doctor and researcher who helped publish the first article linking AIDS to Karposi’s sarcoma. Brookner is confined to a wheelchair due to childhood polio. Like Ned, Dr. Brookner is angry --
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