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olympusE1 wrote:
> ...snip
>
>> One of the guys that used to fly with me on the airline used
>> to skydive with Zoom. And he said he was normal back then, and that
>> was back in either the late seventies or early eighties. But then
>> again, how normal is anyone who skydives :-)
>
> ...in the late 70s (1979, to be exact) he was being carted off from
> Tulsa in a butterfly net by his daddy because he was caught
> impersonating a doctor (using his grandfather's medical bag, white coat
> and I.D.) and scheduling his girlfriend for a hysterectomy. here's a
> few graphs of the Tulsa Tribune article:
>
> Tulsa Tribune
>
> Jan 4, 1979
> Page 1A
> " Doctor No
> All 'physician' lacked was a license
> By STEVE WARD
>
> Dashing young Dr. James Campbell had a standing offer with co-workers
> and
> neighbors at his apartment complex: Call him if they needed a doctor.
> They
> called often. He came to the rescue of a woman having a heart attack,
> gave
> first aid to a girl with a bad cut on her forehead, treated an next
> door
> neighbor's baby who had a cold and was planning to perform surgery on
> his
> girlfriend.
>
> Everyone liked Dr. Campbell. He told them he was a man of the world -
> he
> was working with the CIA, was a Vietnam veteran, a daredevil who once
> tried
> to parachute off the world trade center in New York City and was
> licensed
> to fly commercial jets. The only thing wrong was that Dr. Campbell,
> who
> practiced in Tulsa for four months, was not a doctor.
>
> Campbell was described by his father as being a "schizophrenic" who has
> tried to convince even his parents that he is a doctor, even though he
> never has attended medical school, officers said. Yet he functioned in
> a
> Tulsa suburb as a doctor, although he apparently never performed
> surgery,
> until last week. Everyone who came in contact with him until recent
> weeks
> was impressed."
>
> now, i do not know what, exactly, you use as a benchmark for normal, but
> in this case the manifestations of, shall we say, abnormality showed up
> rather early in life.
>
> al
>
Can the original article be posted somehow? The online Tulsa Tribune
archive only goes back to '89.
John
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