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Somebody stole my flyswatter, too. Never thought about filing an insurance claim. Makes me want to kill somebody, though.

Unfortunately, we can no longer involuntarily commit someone unless they hurt themselves or someone else.

Then, it is too late.

Hundreds of thousands have died needlessly since the law was changed ( thanks to Geraldo Rivera's rather shallow reporting).

All that was necessary was to add protections to existing law.

This was classic "make the base happy no matter how stupid their emotional reactions to TV talking heads may be" without thought to consequences.

This is the face of early onset dementia and / or paranoid schizophrenia ....

It is all very clear to me... Ms Louise Williamson is the ring leader of the grandma brigade ,,notorious in their devious plot to steal all the fine furniture in the world and replace it with fakes. They pose as " ulpholsterers" but secretly have repoductions done in China.... Exactly how many pieces of furniture has she done for Dr Arnold. I bet if your peel her
"skin" away you will find Dr Evil himself.

Grisham is on it. Bet on it.

Just freaking unbelieveable. If I had not seen the video and the court documents I would probably not believed it. Talk about a sick imagination. Surely the insurance company didn't give him a dime.

I know it's been ten years since the video, but he looks very different.
See picture in link below. By the way, he was denied bail today.

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20120501/NEWS/120501024?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Wow. I didn't realize that Dr. Smith was this bent. I really feel sorry for Mrs. Williamson for being a part of this.

there is a fine line between brilliance and insanity. Albert Einstein as well as Dr Arnold Smith are proof that some times the two become intertwined. I am a Greenwood native and a friend of the Abraham family. Obviously Dr Smith is psychologically imbalanced however he is also one of the most brilliant onconologists(cancer doctor) in the whole country. He has made cutting-edge discoveries in the treatment of certain types of cancers. There is irony in the fact that a man whom has devoted so much of his life to saving lives would attempt to take one. However, I immediately suspected Dr Smith of being behind this assination plot

He is not held in high regard with other oncologists in Mississippi so his incarceration will be welcomed by the medical community and the families of his former patients.

C R A Z Y. Dangerously crazy. Cant believe it took him 10 years to finally go off the deep end.

Adam, that is a myth created by the less than brilliant.

Crazy happens in those with average or below IQs far more frequently because there are fewer brilliant people.

What the video brought to my mind was Edgar Allen Poe. Remember in his stories the deranged person was usually very meticulous, very detailed? That is what this guy was like.

12:16 Myth or not. Who cares? This guy is n"smart crazy" no doubt about it. I'm not sure anything could really help him. Reality doesn't exist for him in this video, and I can only imagine how much worse he is ten years later. This will be some trial. I can see him pulling a Ted Bundy and wanting to defend himself. He probably thinks he is smarter and can get away with and convince others of anything, too.

The distinction between psychological illness and creative thinking is wafer thin, new Swedish research confirms, arguing that there is a feasible explanation for why the age-old myth of genius bordering on insanity could in fact be true.

"Thinking outside the box might be facilitated by having a somewhat less intact box."

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." - Oscar Levant

We have musical geniuses; Ludwig Von Beethoven, Gordon Sumner (Sting), Jimi Hendrix. Brilliant thinkers; Nicola Tesla and Sir Isaac Newton. Television & comic greats; Johnathan Winters, Mike Wallace, Vivien Leigh. Politicals; Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge,Thomas Jefferson. Literary Geniuses; Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, and Edgar Allen Poe. Artistic geniuses; Vincent Van Gogh, Michaelangelo, and Leonardo Da Vinci. The aforementioned are just the most famous of the bunch. History is littered with great thinkers that mostly overcame, or learned to live with mental illness.

Check the large number of complaints against him.

Adam: I've had the pleasure of meeting a few of the most distinguished oncologists in the world (you know, Nobel Prize recipients, that sort of stuff). Those whose world ends at the Greenwood city limits probably don't realize what the rest of the world is like.

I still would not let Ms Louise williamson off the hook so easily..... did you see how se squirmed when dr smith brilliantly uncovered the counterfeit furniture modus operandi. How clever of her to
pose as an "upholsterer" ... so, while she "worked" on new upholstery , she was really having counterfeits made in China. i kept waiting for Dr Smith to bring down the hammer on her.

I defy anyone to name one "cutting-edge discovery" made by this guy. He manipulates desperately ill people into believing he can cure them, when he's doing nothing at all out of the ordinary. The mental illness at work here (assuming there is one) is some form of sociopathy or psychopathy, where he just does not feel constrained by the same rules the rest of us have to live by.

If this were a documentary, I would have to say, independent of the surrounding situation, he does pose an interesting theory. However, in the face of much of the comments and his current situation; I am pained by watching mental illness go unchecked. The stigma of mental illness has gone on too long. It is about time we start to realize it's very real toll, not only on the individual, but family members and friends as well.

Oh, and as a theory it's neat, in reality, "Coo-coo-for-Coco-Puffs" comes to mind.

Is this the same Dr. Arnold Smith who was formerly associated with the Baptist hospital here in Jackson as a radiologist/oncologist back in the 1980's or maybe the early 90's? If so, I can relate a bizarre experience that occurred when I took my mother in for radiation following her breast cancer surgery.

If you read his statement posted above, Dr. Smith was in Jackson from 1974 through 1992. So, please post your story. Enquiring minds want to know.

Never mind my question. It is the same Dr. Arnold Smith. I just googled him and confirmed that he is the one and the same doctor who was head of radiation/oncology at Baptist during that time period.

My mother had breast cancer in the 1980's, and because my father was away on a business trip, I took my mother to Dr. Arnold Smith for her first radiation treatment. We arrived fifteen minutes early for her 1 pm appointment, but when we entered his offices, the reception desk was deserted. Dr. Smith's staff finally trickled in from lunch about ten or fifteen minutes after one. They leisurely took her information, and then she was taken back to see Dr. Smith about 1:30. When he entered the examining room, I was sitting there with my mother. He introduced himself, and immediately berated her for being late. She explained that actually she had arrived early, but there was no staff to take her information. Then a nurse knocked on the door and Dr. Smith excused himself for a few minutes. When he re-entered, he sat down, and using the exact same words as he had used before, he introduced himself, and once more, berated my mother for being late. She again explained that she had been there well on time but his staff was late. Then he had to leave the room for a third time. Again, when he entered, USING THE EXACT WORDS THAT HE HAD USED THE PREVIOUS TWO TIMES, he introduced himself and lectured my mother for being late. She repeated again that it was the fault of his staff. I will never forget the look that passed between me and my mother at this point. It was "this man is crazy" and it was due to the fact that each time he entered, he behaved as if he had never met or seen or spoken to my mother before in his life -- that he was seeing her for the very first time, even though he had just left the room twice. The oddest thing was that he used the exact --and I mean the EXACT words -- each time he entered. It was surreal. It was bizarre. It was scary. She and I were so uncomfortable that we decided when we left that she would get her radiation treatment elsewhere.

My father called me when he got home because my mother was so upset, and he wanted to know if I thought she was was over-reacting, since Dr. Smith was so highly recommended. I said, Daddy, that man is CRAZY. I witnessed it.

A few years later, one of my friends told me that she had ushered her father out of Dr. Smith's office after experiencing bizarre behavior when she had taken her father in for treatment.

I know my story is perhaps trivial, but I have been in the room with this man, and something was just not right. He is insane. He may be brilliant, but my mother and I thought he was insane. It was as though we were stuck watching a tape that replayed itself over and over. I will never forget it.

By the way, she received excellent treatment at UMMC and loved her doctor. I was there for that appointment as well, and it was such a relief to be in the room with a NORMAL doctor.

Yes, this is the same doctor. I know Dr. Smith fairly well in a casual way - definite problems there. His behavior has become increasingly bizarre, but his generally pleasant manner has helped him maintain a practice and continue to stay in business. What is truly sad is the way the delta has embraced him. It does not speak very well of our local medical community or of our community in general that someone like this is walking around, advertising his 'innovative' treatments. Perhaps the end of this, despite the death of one assassin and the shooting of another, is all for the good. It is a very sad and creepy thing to hear this. There have been dozens of instances of harmless but bizarre accusations surrounding this doctor. Who knows what effect they have had on those he treats. And yet, none of us have really moved forward trying to help him or get him any treatment.

7:44 I was thinking the same thing about Dr. Smith. I am pretty sure he is the doctor my Mother saw when she was taking radiology for cancer at Baptist in the late '80s early '90s timeframe, too. I would be very interested to hear your story. Please share it with us.

Dr. Arnold Smith is the worst excuse for an oncologist that I have ever known. I had treatments at his clinic in late 2002,early 2003. He has no regard for patient privacy. He has no social skills! There have been numerous complaints to the Board of Medicine in regards to his inappropriate behavior, yet somehow he has continued to practice medicine. His so called "cutting edge" immunotherapy was nothing other than high priced vitamins that he fooled alot of patients into purchasing. It has always been common knowledge that he has mental issues. At least he can not practice medicine while he is in Parchman!! Bless that poor lady that was unaware of what was truly going on.

Good Lord!!! I am a psychiatrist and he is in desperate need of a healthy dose of antipsychotics. Delusional, beyond delusional. I agree very much with a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis likely crossed with dementia in early stage. I can't stop watching. This is like a train wreck. Poor lady!!!

Cancer cells and regular cells look an awful lot alike. One helps you, the other leads to death. "Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide." -Dryden

Don't be so quick to think the local community had embraced him and supported him. Not only did he not even have privileges at the hospital his center was located in, he was thought of by alot of the medical community as a "nut". No dementia there, just paranoid delusional behavior. Many had reported him to the medical board and he would always get a pass from the state officials.

It's my understanding he personally owned the certificate of need (CON) issued by the State Health Department for the radiation therapy he provided -- might have had something to do with the machine he uses. Anyway, this gave him tremendous leverage in dealing with the hospital, and also made him extremely paranoid about the hospital attempting to pry the CON away from him. No matter how crazy he acted, as long as he owned the CON he was basically untouchable in Greenwood.

Does anyone else recall that Dr. Arnold Smith purchased one of those fine old but deteriorating homes on North State Street (not far from Baptist) with the purposes of restoring it, but that it burned to the ground after his acquisition? I am not certain but I think I recall that the circumstances may have been suspicious -- or perhaps not, it was so long ago.

My guess is Dr. Smith stayed in practice so long because no one is beating down the door to practice oncology in Mississippi.

12:47
i do. house discussed in that kevin sessums book. word was smithbought it to sell for comm'l use, but the house was protected, antebellum perhaps, and it burned shortly after he was told it cdnt be torn down. no doubt in my mind, then or now.

Mississippi is reaping what's been sewn.

Neither race seems to want to face the realities.

Rather than face the realities, we still have a large number of folks that don't want sex education, abortion, birth control or even really want their children " educated" . They only want them to learn SOME things and science isn't one of those things.

We certainly don't want our children to be smart enough to get into Ivy League schools or else mentioning that about somebody would be a compliment rather than a warning that person " thinks they're better than us".

They ARE. And, rather than let our smart people lead us and welcome them home, we make sure they go someplace else.

After watching the video in length last night my thought is, "what a nut case".

May 3, 12:47 & May 4, 9am-
The home you refer to was the W.H.Watkins home, built in 1908-1909, and was for lease prior to burning down in early to mid 80's. Sight of home is now a parking lot and medical bldg. on 1400 block of N.State St.

Anonymous 9:20 a.m.,

How is all that stuff you say we need going to make Mississippi better? There may have been some babies aborted who, had they been given the chance to live, could have grown up to make the state a better place!

Dr. Smith is a excellent doctor....What doctor actually recalls all his patients name and getting upset and calling him weird just because he walked out the room and picked back up on his conversation is far from being insane... I think he IS the best oncology Doctor the Delta has had.... And with the grace of God will be home soon enought to continue his practice; which gone be even bigger than before... Free Dr. Arnold Smith

"This is the face of early onset dementia and/or paranoid schizophrenia .... "

Having known him since the 1960s, it's not Dementia...