The Note in the Culvert: How a Surgeon Stole Her Body
The Note in the Culvert: How a Surgeon Stole Her Body
The idea that a surgeon could manufacture pain until a patient lost trust in her own body is chilling: a single red-circled note - "She will agree if you tell her the nerve damage is progressing." - was found in a water-damaged folder in a culvert, and within six months a surgeon was arrested. How did routine appointments and 17 surgeries over four years become the mechanism for dismantling Rebecca Hamilton's sense of reality?
In this episode, we tell what the record shows and follow the timeline of appointments, annotations, and financial…
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