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The Surgeon Who Cut a Healthy Leg Off - A Deadly Compulsion
The Surgeon Who Cut a Healthy Leg Off - A Deadly Compulsion
A retired engineer paid to have his anatomically normal left leg removed and died after a surgeon with a 1947 medical degree but no valid U.S. license operated in a Tijuana clinic; how did a procedure that a pathologist later called entirely preventable end in death? What responsibility did the surgeon owe to a patient who asked for amputation decades before medicine had a name for the condition?
In this episode, we tell the documented record of Philip Bondy’s trip to Tijuana, the life and practice of John Ronald Brown, and the legal…
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