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Part One: John Ronald Brown: The Worst Surgeon Ever

Behind the Bastards

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John Ronald Brown's Transgender Transition

John Ronald Brown failed the general surgery oral examination twice and the plastic surgery oral examination three times. This should have stopped him from ever performing surgery in a hospital, but it didn't largely because no one really checked up on him. Since he'd completed specialty residencies, he was still considered bored eligible. So John got to work surgery all sorts of people. His first wife left him for one of his friends while he was in the army. His second wife died of breast cancer.

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