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Word: watnicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Forging credentials and references, he applied to a medical placement agency. Since hospitals were then clamoring for interns, he was soon placed. Said Superintendent Miriam Watnick of Brooklyn Women's Hospital: "He was a very good doctor and a nice person. He had a marvelous personality and impressed all of us at the hospital. I can't imagine him being a fake . . . He had a medical diploma and references. What could we do?" Nobody, it seemed, had had the time or taken the trouble to check MacLeod's references...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Self-Made Doctor | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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