Before putting too much stock in this, break out your copy of _The Myth of Repressed Memory_ by Dr. Elizabeth Loftus. The simple fact is that if you don't remem

Before putting too much stock in this, break out your copy of _The Myth of Repressed Memory_ by Dr. Elizabeth Loftus. The simple fact is that if you don't remember something that happened to you twenty years ago today, you're not going to remember it better twenty years from now. It will instead become easier and easier for other people to insinuate contrafactual details. It's actually quite easy to implant false memories, especially with the kind of leading questions Ms. Campbell's anesthesiologist friend would be likely to throw at her by trying to reveal his/her specialist knowledge. It's the same phenomenon that led to the big "satanism" scares late last century and it's the same reason normal people who go to "therapists" who specialize in "alien abduction" wind up "remembering" abduction events once in session. Leading questions. In fact, her memory of someone standing over her is a very common phenomenon, usually attended by sleep paralysis, and is also thought to be the basis for alien abduction stories. The article paints a very clear cause-and-effect relationship between the surgery, trauma, and her life's troubles. I doubt that in reality the effects were so clear cut. We're not seeing the whole story, just the part that makes a coherent narrative. Whatever happened—this, or something else—certainly has produced an emotional trauma which is something Ms. Campbell needs to address in her own life. But I doubt very seriously that the right response is to get everyone worked up about something that may or may not be to blame.