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Dr. Reed and Dr. Noorchashm with their children in their backyard in Yardley, Pa., in the summer of 2015.
Jennifer Capozzola; thumbnail, Matthew Cavanaugh for The New York Times, 2014
Amy Reed
Died on May 24, 2017 at age 44
A physician and cancer patient, Dr. Reed turned a personal calamity into a crusade to spare other women from morcellation, the medical procedure that harmed her.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.