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...after he got out of the Army in 1945 seemed to have everything. He showed the hospital authorities photostats of degrees from Scottish and German universities; medical patter rolled smoothly off his tongue. The confidence inspired by his earnest, sympathetic eyes and velvety bedside manner suggested that William R. MacLeod would go far in his chosen profession. Within the next few months he had helped deliver 475 babies...
...almost five years, MacLeod transferred from one hospital to another in the New York area, always making a good impression, never making a detectable medical mistake. But this summer he made a serious tactical mistake by missing a payment on a car he had bought in Hartford...
When police made a routine check across the state line it showed that no William R. MacLeod had been licensed to practice medicine in New York State. Within hours horrified hospital authorities had the dreadful truth: MacLeod, by then installed as senior resident at Dobbs Ferry Hospital, had been practicing medicine for five years without even a medical degree...
...faced hospital authorities scrabbled through their records to see how MacLeod had gotten away with his fraud. Born in Ste. Cecile, Quebec, he had gone to grade school in Maine and almost finished high school in Ste. Cecile. Between odd clerical jobs he served a hitch in the U.S. Army. In 1941 he rejoined the Army and was assigned to the Medical Corps. Private MacLeod read every medical book in sight, carefully noted the Army medics' talk and techniques. At war's end, self-taught "Dr. MacLeod" felt ready for professional duties...
...married undergraduates at the Annex lauded plans for such a marriage course. "I would have appreciated such a course before I was married," sighed Mrs. Doris MacLeod Moths '49. A married senior asserted, "As a happily married and well-adjusted person, I think such a course would be a fine thing, although I get along perfectly well with out having had one." A 'Cliffe freshman commented: "I think it's just what the college needs . . . in fact, Harvard might do well to follow our example. It's the greatest thing since 'dual instruction...