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Linda Laura Hazzard was born Lynda Laura Burfield in Carver, Minnesota, oldest of 7 children of Susanna Neil (née Wakefield) and Montgomery Burfield.Hazzard had no medical degree, but was licensed to practice medicine in the state of Washington through a loophole that grandfathered in some practitioners of alternative medicine without degrees.
His mother died of starvation when he was only three on February 26, 1908, [4] while under treatment by Linda Hazzard, a so-called fasting specialist. However, following autopsy, it was determined that his mother had been suffering from terminal stomach cancer, possibly for years, and that she would have died even without Hazzard's "treatment".
Steve and Amy say that Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard had lived there a century ago when the area was known as "Starvation Heights" due to a cruel fasting treatment she advocated, used on her patients and herself.
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The story of the life of Linda Hazzard, a con artist who operated a sanatorium in Olalla, Washington. Hazzard prescribed her patients with fasting treatments, and then took her patients’ money and possessions after they died of starvation. In 1912, Hazzard was convicted of manslaughter for the deaths of her patients.