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The Surgeon With No License Who Cut Off a Stranger's Leg
The Surgeon With No License Who Cut Off a Stranger's Leg
Curiosity about dangerous certainties drives this episode: a revoked physician with hundreds of super glue tubes, blood-soaked mattresses, and videotapes of amateur operations, and a 79-year-old engineer who paid to have his left leg removed-then bled to death in a hotel room. How did someone with a revoked license and prior arrests end up amputating a healthy limb in Tijuana and walking away?
In this episode, we lay out the facts of the case and the sequence of events that led to the fatal amputation, following the apartment evidence…
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