Lead Stories
In January a jury in Spokane, Washington, awarded $2.1 million to a 30-year-old autistic man whose doctor, the late neuropsychiatrist Donald Dudley, had tried to erase part of the man’s brain through chemotherapy and turn him into a trained killer….In June a medical board in Ontario found psychiatrist Raymond Danny Leibl guilty of “disgraceful” conduct in his treatment of a 53-year-old woman; a proponent of “reparenting,” Leibl disciplined the woman as if she were a child, gave her sodium amytal with vodka to induce hypnosis, and instructed her to call him “Mommy-Daddy Ray.”…And in May a medical board in Oklahoma revoked the license of Dr. Scott Gilbert after hearing allegations that the plastic surgeon used wood screws and Superglue on patients.
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The Straits Times of Singapore reported last month that the health office in Muar, Malaysia, had shut down a food stall and arrested its proprietor because he was boiling dirty underwear in pots with food. The proprietor claimed that, according to legend, this improved the taste of the food.
Recurring Themes
In Detroit, three men and a woman hoisted a homeowner’s metal two-car garage onto their pickup truck and attempted to drive off with it, but the structure broke and they left it in the street….A research team at Oklahoma State University said it would soon begin test-marketing sliced peanut butter that is wrapped in plastic sleeves like cheese….Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir, India, banned the word widow for fear it would further upset women whose husbands have died in recent separatist battles….In El Paso, Texas, a barroom gunfight was averted when a man waving a pellet gun in his prosthetic arm watched as the arm dislodged and fell to the floor.
