American Experience

Online Forum

A panel of experts answered your questions on the events of David Vetter's life, immunodeficiency and its effects on the body, the technologies doctors used to protect David from infection, the challenges David's family faced in caring for him, David's legacy to medicine, the ethical issues raised by his treatment, and more, in this Online Forum.

The Forum was live from April 10 through 14, 2006, and is now over. The questions and replies are posted here permanently for you to read.

• April 10 | 
• April 11 | 
• April 12 | 
• April 13 | 
• April 14

Read about the forum participants:

• Carol Ann Vetter Demaret, David's mother
• Barak Goodman, filmmaker
• James H. Jones, author
• John Maggio, filmmaker
• John R. Montgomery, M.D., pediatric immunologist
• Mary Ann South, M.D., pediatric immunologist
• Joseph (Raphael) Wilson, Ph.D., biological research scientist

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• Bioethics Opinions | 
• Footage of David | 
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