Oregon Republican Senate Candidate Dr. Monica Wehby "She must be smoking pot or something...

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Long before Monica Wehby entered the rough and tumble world of politics by running for the U.S. Senate, she was stirring controversy in the highly specialized world of pediatric neurosurgery.

Starting in the late 1990s, she advocated at pediatric neurosurgery gatherings for use of a well-known surgery on children even in instances where medical imaging didn't clearly support doing so -- but where other clues existed.

Other surgeons suspected she was doing some surgeries unnecessarily, and without adequate basis, said Dr. Curtis Rozzelle, a pediatric neurosurgeon for Children's Hospital of Alabama. "Her approach was met with a healthy degree of skepticism," he said.

"Out of the blue, this young person gets up and presents this wild and woolly idea," says Vancouver, B.C., pediatric surgeon Paul Steinbok. The reaction from many doctors at these meetings, he said, was "She must be smoking pot or something down in Oregon."

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