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The Surgeon Without a License Who Amputated a Man's Life
The Surgeon Without a License Who Amputated a Man's Life
A man whose medical license had been revoked 21 years earlier performed an amputation that left a 79-year-old dead - and it began with a desire no U.S. surgeon would legally honor. What drove Philip Bondy to seek removal of a healthy limb, and why did John Ronald Brown continue operating despite revocation, criminal arrest, and at least one earlier patient death?
In this episode, we tell the events leading up to the May 10, 1998 discovery of Philip Bondy’s body and the context around the decades-long practice of John Ronald Brown…
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