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Jeff Getty: Lessons in desperate measures Steven G. Deeks has been known for gutsy approaches, starting in the dark days of the mid-1990s. "1993 was the low point, the worst, of the epidemic," Deeks remembers. "Everyone was dying." His first day in the clinic coincided with the release of a major clinical study, the Concorde study, which investigated the use of early AZT therapy in 1,749 asymptomatic patients and showed that it