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He Chose the Scalpel: The Amputation That Killed a Man
He Chose the Scalpel: The Amputation That Killed a Man
A retired engineer flew from New York to Tijuana for a voluntary amputation and died the next day from a catastrophic bacterial infection while no licensed clinician was present; the surgeon had been unlicensed for over twenty years and investigators later found hundreds of tubes of super glue used instead of sutures. How did a man barred from practice for decades continue to operate across borders, and why would patients still choose him?
In this episode, we tell the story of the patient, the unlicensed surgeon, and the medical and…
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