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Part One: John Ronald Brown: The Worst Surgeon Ever

Behind the Bastards

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Sylvia: We've had a little history lesson and now it's time to talk about a terrible person. John Ronald Brown claims in interviews to have been the son of a Mormon physician in Utah, which is probably where he comes from. He was apparently something of a child genius and he found academics so easy that he graduated high school at age 16. But I do not feel like he would lie about being from Utah. No one has ever pretended to be from Utah. It's like lying about coming from Oklahoma City.

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