[PW] Inexperienced people in occupations who then excel at them

[Sea Wasp]

Michael J. Lowrey wrote:
> On 4/4/07, Webb, KerryA <KerryA.Webb at act.gov.au> wrote:
> 
>>Sara asked:
>>
>>>A patron is looking for examples of people who, without experience for
>>>a particular occupation, profession or job, then excels at the job.

	Perhaps the best example is the Great Impostor, Ferdinand Waldo 
Demara Jr.; he was a high-school dropout who managed to successfully 
impersonate everything from a research biologist to a law enforcement 
officer -- culminating in his impersonation of a medical doctor, Dr. 
Joseph Cyr, during the Korean War. He functioned -- successfully -- as 
the ship's surgeon on board a Canadian destroyer and performed 
operations up to and including removal of a bullet from near the heart 
of a patient. He never lost a patient during that time.


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