Well, in his defense, he is an outstanding scientist. Not many doctors can reanimate the dead. Oh, and he has other qualifications:
Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital has hired a new interim, part-time chief medical officer, a board-certified physician in the areas of pulmonology and internal medicine with a track record for evaluating hospital standards at the national level.
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Apparently Mr. Holt has never seen "Young Frankenstein", because that's exactly how Gene Wilder pronounces it in Mel Brooks' classic film.
Pronunciation aside, one would think that certain last names would fall out of use due to the negative connotations: Hitler, Stalin, Frankenstein, etc.