Los Angeles Angels MLB Team Doctor Lewis Yocum Dies at Age 66
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Lewis A. Yocum, the team doctor for the Los Angeles Angels and an orthopedic surgeon who helped extend the Major League Baseball careers of players including Stephen Strasburg and Dustin Pedroia, has died. He was 66.
Yocum was a fellow at the Kerlan-Jobe Clinic in Los Angeles and specialized in shoulder, elbow and knee surgery. USA Today reported that Yocum had liver cancer, without saying where it got the information.