另一个吉尔默博士:两个男人,一起谋杀案,一场不太可能的正义之争

Sherif Soliman, Steve Buie
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Gradually, Benjamin Gilmer started hearing stories from his patients and staff about Vince Gilmer. The stories painted a picture of a gentle, kind man, who often refused payment for his services and sponsored the local kids’ baseball team even though he had no children of his own. Despite this perspective, in the book Dr. Benjamin Gilmer does not shy away from the details of the murder. He recounts almost moment for moment how Vince Gilmer strangled his father, dumped his body, and cut off his fingers to prevent the body from being identified. He reflects on the contradiction between the crime and the gentle, caring family physician described by patients and colleagues. The book discusses Dr. Vince Gilmer’s report of severe physical and sexual abuse, recent head injury, and recent SSRI discontinuation. Proceeding pro se, Dr. Vince Gilmer discussed his history of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of his father and alleged that his father reminded him of the abuse and attempted to assault him sexually on the night of the killing. At first, Benjamin Gilmer was afraid of Vince Gilmer, but he was driven to learn more about the case. Working with NPR reporter Sarah Koenig, on an episode of This American Life, Benjamin Gilmer began to investigate the case and met Dr. Vince Gilmer. Dr. Vince Gilmer exhibited gait abnormalities, a movement disorder, word-finding difficulty, and hallucinations, among other symptoms. He then visited Dr. Vince Gilmer again with Dr. Steve Buie, a psychiatrist and the residency training director at the Mountain Area Health Education Center’s psychiatry residency program. Dr. Buie suggested the possibility that Dr. Vince Gilmer could be experiencing Huntington’s Disease, a diagnosis subsequently confirmed by genetic testing. 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当我们遇到与自己同名的人时,我们都会好奇地停下来。本杰明和文斯·吉尔默(没有血缘关系),本来应该是巧合的事情却开始了一段改变人生的旅程。《另一个吉尔默博士》讲述了本杰明·吉尔默博士为与他同名的文斯·吉尔默博士争取正义的故事。本杰明·吉尔默(Benjamin Gilmer)医生刚从住院医师实习期结束,就开始在北卡罗来纳州西部山区的一家乡村初级保健诊所Cane Creek工作。他知道诊所的创始人文森特·吉尔默(Vincent Gilmer)因2004年6月28日谋杀他年迈的父亲道尔顿·吉尔默(Dalton Gilmer)而被判无期徒刑。起初,本杰明·吉尔默(Benjamin Gilmer)医生认为,他可以迅速向病人解释这种巧合,然后继续研究。渐渐地,本杰明·吉尔默开始从他的病人和工作人员那里听到关于文斯·吉尔默的故事。这些故事描绘了一个温柔、善良的男人的形象,他经常拒绝为他的服务付费,并赞助当地的儿童棒球队,尽管他自己没有孩子。尽管有这样的观点,本杰明·吉尔默博士在书中并没有回避谋杀的细节。他每时每刻都在讲述文斯·吉尔默是如何勒死他的父亲,丢弃他的尸体,切断他的手指,以防止尸体被辨认出来。他反思了犯罪与病人和同事所描述的温柔、关怀的家庭医生之间的矛盾。这本书讨论了文斯吉尔默博士的报告严重的身体和性虐待,最近的头部受伤,以及最近的SSRI中断。文斯·吉尔默(Vince Gilmer)博士在辩护过程中讨论了他受到父亲身体虐待和性虐待的历史,并声称他的父亲在杀人当晚提醒了他虐待的经历,并试图对他进行性侵犯。起初,本杰明·吉尔默很害怕文斯·吉尔默,但他被驱使去了解更多关于这个案子的情况。本杰明·吉尔默与美国国家公共电台记者莎拉·柯尼格在《美国生活》的一集节目中开始调查此案,并遇到了文斯·吉尔默医生。文斯·吉尔默博士表现出步态异常、运动障碍、找词困难、幻觉等症状。然后他又和Steve Buie医生一起拜访了Vince Gilmer医生,Steve Buie医生是一位精神病学家,也是山区健康教育中心精神病学住院医师项目的住院医师培训主任。布伊博士认为,文斯·吉尔默博士可能患有亨廷顿舞蹈症,随后通过基因检测证实了这一诊断。然而,当这个医学之谜被解开时,为正义而战的战斗才刚刚开始,本杰明·吉尔默(Benjamin Gilmer)医生意识到,监狱里有一名患有退行性神经精神疾病的男子。作为一名读者,首先要知道这本书的组织和节奏是动态的。它和我读过的任何推理小说一样引人入胜。这本书从Benjamin Gilmer医生在Cane Creek开始行医的故事开始,然后通过病人讲述的故事逐渐介绍了书中不为人知的角色Vince Gilmer医生。接着,随着本杰明·吉尔默医生回顾文森特·吉尔默医生的试验和最初认为他是在装病的观点,这本书迅速发展到医学之谜。这些摘录与一个明显生病的人的照片并列。一旦诊断出来,故事就从快节奏的医学谜团无缝转移到对一名患有严重神经精神疾病的监狱男子的同情请求。这本书最后反思了监狱中对精神病患者的治疗,以及许多惩教机构缺乏适当的精神护理。除了他自己的见解之外,Benjamin Gilmer博士还详细采访了参与原始案件的人,法律倡导者和研究人员。本杰明·吉尔默博士通过这种令人难忘的第一人称叙述,邀请读者进入他的生活。作为读者,我们花时间和他在一起,从甘蔗溪的考场到阿什维尔的农贸市场。我们和他一起去瓦伦斯岭监狱
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The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice
We’ve all taken an inquisitive pause when we encountered someone with the same name as us, but for Drs. Benjamin and Vince Gilmer (no relation), what would ordinarily be a coincidence was the start of a life-changing journey. The Other Dr. Gilmer tells the story of Dr. Benjamin Gilmer’s fight for justice for his namesake, Dr. Vince Gilmer. Dr. Benjamin Gilmer was a family physician fresh out of residency when he began work at Cane Creek, a rural primary care clinic, in the mountains of western North Carolina. He was aware that the founder of the clinic, Dr. Vincent Gilmer, was serving a life sentence for the June 28, 2004 murder of his elderly father, Dalton Gilmer. At first, Dr. Benjamin Gilmer thought he would quickly explain the coincidence to his patients and move on. Gradually, Benjamin Gilmer started hearing stories from his patients and staff about Vince Gilmer. The stories painted a picture of a gentle, kind man, who often refused payment for his services and sponsored the local kids’ baseball team even though he had no children of his own. Despite this perspective, in the book Dr. Benjamin Gilmer does not shy away from the details of the murder. He recounts almost moment for moment how Vince Gilmer strangled his father, dumped his body, and cut off his fingers to prevent the body from being identified. He reflects on the contradiction between the crime and the gentle, caring family physician described by patients and colleagues. The book discusses Dr. Vince Gilmer’s report of severe physical and sexual abuse, recent head injury, and recent SSRI discontinuation. Proceeding pro se, Dr. Vince Gilmer discussed his history of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of his father and alleged that his father reminded him of the abuse and attempted to assault him sexually on the night of the killing. At first, Benjamin Gilmer was afraid of Vince Gilmer, but he was driven to learn more about the case. Working with NPR reporter Sarah Koenig, on an episode of This American Life, Benjamin Gilmer began to investigate the case and met Dr. Vince Gilmer. Dr. Vince Gilmer exhibited gait abnormalities, a movement disorder, word-finding difficulty, and hallucinations, among other symptoms. He then visited Dr. Vince Gilmer again with Dr. Steve Buie, a psychiatrist and the residency training director at the Mountain Area Health Education Center’s psychiatry residency program. Dr. Buie suggested the possibility that Dr. Vince Gilmer could be experiencing Huntington’s Disease, a diagnosis subsequently confirmed by genetic testing. Yet when the medical mystery was solved, the fight for justice was only beginning as Dr. Benjamin Gilmer realized that a man was in prison with a degenerative neuropsychiatric condition. The first thing to know as a reader about this book’s organization and pacing is that it moves. It’s as compelling as any mystery novel I’ve read. The book begins with Dr. Benjamin Gilmer’s story of starting to practice at Cane Creek and gradually introduces the unseen (at first) character in the book, Dr. Vince Gilmer, through the stories his patients tell about him. The book then progresses rapidly to medical mystery as Dr. Benjamin Gilmer reviews Dr. Vincent Gilmer’s trial and the initial opinion that he was malingering his symptoms. These excerpts are juxtaposed with the current picture of an obviously ill man. Once the diagnosis is made, the story moves seamlessly from fast-paced medical mystery to a plea for compassion for a man in prison with a severe neuropsychiatric disease. The book concludes with reflections on the treatment of people with mental illness in prison and the lack of adequate psychiatric care in many correctional settings. In addition to his own insights, Dr. Benjamin Gilmer details interviews with people who were involved in the original case, legal advocates, and researchers. Dr. Benjamin Gilmer invites the reader into his life through this memorable first-person narrative. As readers we spend time with him from the exam rooms at Cane Creek to the farmer’s market in Asheville. We journey with him to Wallens Ridge Prison in
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