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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Why was Norman Bates...

…still practicing medicine?


'Yesterday's horror came after two previous suicide tries by Bartha, an emergency-room doctor who has worked at Lenox Hill Hospital as well as Phelps and Mount Vernon in Westchester.

Last year, he was discovered barricaded in his basement, nearly unconscious, after being overcome by gas, officials said.

And several years earlier, he had locked himself in his office and tried to do himself in by setting off an insecticide bomb, sources said.


...Bartha's mother had lived on the second floor, performing manicures and pedicures, before she died in 1997, neighbors said.

The woman who initially took over the mother's apartment said Bartha seemed very upset when she arranged her furniture differently than his mom had.

On at least three occasions, she said, she returned home from work and found him inside. She said he told her, "This is set up all wrong. My mother didn't have it set up like this.

"I had to keep reminding him that he just couldn't keep entering someone's apartment," she said. "I left after one year. I couldn't wait to get out."'



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