Dr. William Shearer, Who Treated the ‘Bubble Boy,’ Dies at 81 “What he gave us was a powerful lesson in many areas of medicine,” Dr. Shearer said of his young patient, who lived in a sterile plastic cocoon. Share: Facebook Twitter Google+ Stumble Digg Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to Facebook Related Posts:A Race to Document Rare Plants Before These Cliffs Are Ground to DustLower Back Ache? Be Active and Wait It Out, New Guidelines SayGrisly Cleanup Follows Deaths of 400 Whales in New ZealandASTEROID WARNING: Empire State Building-sized space rock may hit Earth, says NASAOp-Ed Contributor: When Canadian Scientists Were Muzzled by Their GovernmentSharp Rise Reported in Older Americans’ Use of Multiple Psychiatric Drugs