The English Wannabe Case
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The full
Horizon documentary about this case - 49
min. 30 sec.
You can download this full documentary here:
A few
years ago, Malcolm, an investigator from the
English BBC channel, contacted Ampulove,
with the question, to bring him in contact
with Wannabes, who wanted to come out for
their needs in becoming an amputee. Malcolm,
who did investigations for the Horizon
program, and was an amputee himself, came to
visit us a few times at the Ampulove office,
that we had that time in Belgium.
Malcolm informed us that in the Falkirk
Hospital of Scotland, a surgeon did legal
amputations on wannabes, after being
screened by a psychologist and two
psychiatrics.
Dr. Surgeon
Smith from the Falkirk hospital
Even that time, we did for the BBC team
investigations on wannabes and went
afterwards to the United Kingdom, to offer
them all the information we knew. As "thank
you", we received even two very high bills,
from the psychiatric and psychologist, that
we visited to offer them hundreds of pages
with the wannabe investigations we did here.
With the "help" of Ampulove, Corinne, a
woman from the United States was in the BBC
documentary. But unfortunately, that became
a disaster for her. They mentioned her as a
not real amputee wannabe.
The next pictures are from Corinne long time
after this English wannabe documentary.
Corinne a real amputee wannabe. First one
leg, then two:
Also Ampulove was
mentioned in the documentary, but that piece
was cut out, before it came on worldwide
television channels.
On this page, you really find everything we
have about that case, those people, and the
BBC and Horizon. We kept the text below in
the origin like we wrote it, the first time
it was published.
Let this article be a warning to people that
want to be open minded to television makers.
It can damage you very much, just like it
did with a few of those people here. |
A few years ago there
was a Scottish Surgeon who did legaly
amputations on wannabes.
About this case we found a lot of medical
scans, special documents, etc...
all are scanned and showed below.
To give you more information about the
scans, here is an explanation 'who is who'.
you will find papers and e-mails from:
- Malcolm Neaum (the BBC investigator who
searched for wannabes for the television
programm Horizon)
- Corinne (a female dak wannabe who was in
the horizon programm)
- Doctor Surgeon Smith (Falkirk Hospital
surgeon who did the amputations on the
wannabes)
- Dr. R.W. Reid (one of the two
psychiatrists involved in the englisch
wannabe project)
- Dr. K. Fischer (psychologist involved in
the wannabe project)
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A few years ago,
the horizon BBC program (television
United Kingdom) asked ampulove, for
help, because they were planning to
make a documentary about the
wannabes, their desire to become
real amputees, etc... So ampulove
came in contact with Malcolm Neaum,
the programma investigator from the
BBC, an australian young man, who
was an amputee also (but not a
ex-wannabe)
He asked friendly for some
information. Ampulove did all they
could. Giving addresses, bringing
the BBC in contact with some
wannabes, like Corinne a friendly
american woman who wanted to lose
her two legs above the knee (she was
in the documentary of Horizon),...
Once Ampulove disagreed with the
fact to be filmed, Mister Neaum
wasn't friendly anymore. Even the
name ampulove wasn't mentioned in
their horizon programm anymore.
Afterwards the Ampulove people heard
from people in this programm, like
Corinne the American female wannabe,
that Malcolm Neaum 'used' the
people. He didn't told them
honnestly that this programm would
be worldwide afterwards on
television, and told them only that
it would be on English television.
So a lot of people involved had a
lot of problems afterwards when this
Horizon program was also on their
own local television.
That's the site
of the horizon BBC programm, and our
very bad experiences with them....
On the other way there was Mr Kevin.
C. A Scotisch ex - wannabe, who
was'nt affraid to come out for his
wannabe feelings and the need to
have is leg off.
A brave young man who started once
the site Overground; He found a
surgeon, and a psychiatrist who
believed in his wish to become an
amputee.
Finally when his surgery was done in
Scotland, the medical crew: Surgeon
S. and the psychiatrists, ... went
on with viewing wannabes. A man,
also reached is goal, and became an
amputee by wish. A few times he
phoned with the ampulove team.
(also he is involved in the Horizon
programm). The next man who would
become a 'happy amp' was Phd Gregg
F; also the writer of the only
serious book about apotemnophilia
available on this world. But the
case stopped. The Falkirk hospital
direction didn't want anymore
surgeries on ex-Scottish patients,
and so the project, the only
legally-becomming-an-amputee-by-wish
project was over. |
A few years ago, Amputee
Alex from Ampu-Love received this letter from a
German friend... Writing that Corinne from the
documentar finally is legless:
More news from the falkirk Hospital
Woman asks Falkirk
hospital to cut off healthy legs
Sue Leonard,
Scottish Health Correspondent
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A SCOTTISH
hospital has issued a statement
warning that it will not treat
sufferers of body dysmorphic
disorder after a woman travelled
from France seeking to have both her
legs amputated.
The patient
turned up at Falkirk Royal Infirmary
last month seeking an operation to
remove healthy limbs after reading
on the internet that the hospital
had carried out similar operations.
Robert Smith,
a surgeon, was banned from
amputating healthy limbs in 2000
after operating on two private
patients. Kevin Wright, 39, from
Essex, and Hans Schaub, 71, from
Germany, had lower legs removed.
Both men suffered from a form of
body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a
condition where patients become
preoccupied with a perceived body
defect. In both cases the men
believed their lower limbs were an
unnecessary part of their body.
The French
woman, who has not been identified,
was admitted to the hospital’s
accident and emergency department on
March 12 after deliberately injuring
her legs. She was assessed by a
surgeon and two psychiatrists and
treated for her injuries before
being flown back to France last week
by air ambulance.
Smith was on
duty but was not involved in the
case.
“We did our
best to care for this patient, as we
would for any other patient, and we
brought clinical staff in to
interview and assess her and that
included psychiatrists and a
vascular surgeon,” said Ian Mullen,
the board chairman.
“We then made
contact with her medical advisers in
France and it was agreed that the
best course of action for the
patient was for her to be
repatriated.
“It is my
very clear view that this type of
operation is entirely inappropriate
for an NHS district general hospital
and a provincial NHS district
hospital at that. Clearly, if
individuals wish to have this kind
of operation carried out and they
can find a private clinic or staff
who are prepared to do that
operation, then obviously that is a
matter for them and the others
involved.
“But it is
inappropriate in this situation, not
least because it undermines the
confidence that the local population
have in their local hospital. That
was something we were very aware of
when this happened in 2000, that
there was a great deal of concern
among the local populace, and our
first responsibility is to them.”
The chairman
said that because of the unusual
circumstances of the incident the
chief executive of the board had
requested a report.
Mullen, who
has asked to see a copy of the
report, added: “As far as I am aware
this lady turned up here entirely of
her own accord. It may have been, of
course, related to previous
incidents. One assumes that she may
have picked up that this operation
had taken place some years ago in
Falkirk.”
The previous
operations took place with the
consent and knowledge of the former
medical director and former chief
executive of the old Falkirk and
District Royal Infirmary Trust but
unbeknown to Mullen, the then trust
chairman.
Last year
Smith mounted a campaign to allow
patients suffering from this type of
BDD to be given the same status as
those seeking sex change operations.
The surgeon believes that the
condition is a distinct
psychological illness similar to
gender identity disorder.
He said that
if patients were not offered
amputations, they might put their
lives at risk by trying to rid
themselves of their “superfluous”
limbs. Some sufferers go to extreme
lengths to get rid of the body part
involved, including lying on railway
lines. |
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We wrote
already 2 times about the
English wannabe case... Surgeon
Smith who performed legal
amputations on wannabes, Malcolm
Neaum, the investigator from the
BBC who 'used' the people from
Ampulove for their help in
finding wannabes and even could
not say 'thank you'; Who used so
many wannabes who where so good
enough to come on television...
but in the mean time we have a
lot more information about this
wannabe project and the people
who where involved in this 'BBC
show'.
The 3 well known people in the
documentary where:
- Gregg Furth, PhD and SAK
wannabe
- Corinne, DAK female wannabe
& - Hans, a SAK male wannabe
More news we
have from them all is that a few
weeks ago we came in contact
again with Hans, the ex-wannabe
who became an amputee in the
Falkirk Hospital; Almost weekly
we receive very nice and long
letters from him and... of
course we write him back. What
he write? We will ask him in our
next letter to him or it is ok
to put a letter online from him,
or to write us a letter, kind of
message to all wannabes and
visitors from Ampulove. What is
for sure? That Hans is
completely happy with his
amputation and that he regret
that he didn't became an amputee
earlier in his live.
Hans
told us that Corinne finally
became her wanted amputations,
just like she wanted to be, a
nice good looking woman, but
without legs. Her dream became
truth and we know now also that
Corinne moved from the USA into
the Netherlands, where she is
happy married. So we received
also pictures from her trough a
friend. Like you can see on the
pictures below was Corinne first
a left above the knee amputee,
afterwards a double above the
knee amputee. For us, here at
Ampulove it was nice to see how
happy she looks, that she
finally has what she wanted her
whole live. Years ago Corinne
told us that she found out her
wannabe desires trough our site
Ampulove, she discovered trough
Ampulove that there are more
people who want to be an
amputee. Here are some pictures
from Corinne's new happy live:
But near the
good news, Hans told us also the
bad news, about Gregg Furth,
that the man died from Cancer. A
few years ago, when he was doing
research for the book he wrote
about Apotemnophilia (BIID), we
gave him information and did a
few investigations trough the
site. The most disappointed side
on the point that he died (in
our eyes) with 2 legs; The man
never had the change to become
his dream, being a happy single
above the knee amputee. |
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