Faye Schrum

Boeing to Ill Workers: "It's All In Your Head"

An Investigation of the Boeing Company

Faye Schrum and untold dozens of current and former Boeing workers continue to live with medical problems - ranging from nausea and nose bleeds to impaired vision and brain damage - they blame on chemicals at the Auburn plant, the top-secret Developmental Center in south Seattle and other Boeing facilities. And, like four years ago, many of them continue to fall through the cracks of a system that, on paper, was designed to help workers who have been hurt on the job.

"The Boeing Company meant everything to me," said Heidi Guevara, a plastic bench mechanic who got sick at Auburn in 1987. "It was a big letdown. I figured they would take care of it."

A Free Press investigation has revealed that the very system designed to help injured workers is being influenced by a closed loop of powerful institutions - most significantly Boeing, the University of Washington's School of Medicine and the Washington State Medical Association. Also in on the act are high-powered law firms, industry-friendly medical researchers, and doctors who straddle the line between physician and corporate apologist.

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