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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

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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, autopsy findings, and witness testimony to ask the central question: what happened between two certainties-that Philip Bondy knew what he was paying for, and that John Ronald Brown knew exactly what he was doing?

Person: John Ronald Brown
Person: Philip Bondy
Date: May 9, 1998
Location: Tijuana / National City
Status: License revoked in 1977

- The search warrant found hundreds of tubes of super glue, blood-soaked mattresses, surgical instruments, and videotapes in Brown's San Ysidro apartment.
- Philip Bondy, age 79, died in a National City hotel room after his left leg had been surgically removed.
- John Ronald Brown graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine in 1947 and failed the oral board for the American Board of Plastic Surgery.
- Brown's California medical license was revoked in 1977 for gross negligence, incompetence, moral turpitude, and related charges.
- Gregg Furth, also seeking amputation, traveled from New York with Bondy and withdrew when an assistant produced a large knife rather than surgical instruments.

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