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15 Feb ’12
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The 17-year-old wannabe Doogie Howser was arrested by West Palm Beach police last week after staff inside the OB/GYN office were alerted by a patient that a “young black male who appeared to be a child was dressed as a doctor”.
The boy, whose name was withheld, had been walking around wearing a white doctor’s lab coat and carrying a stethoscope telling people he was a doctor, police said.
When confronted by officers called to St. Mary’s Medical Center, he told them he had been a doctor for “years” and that “his whole family knows he is a doctor”,according to the police report published by The Smoking Gun.
A security officer told police the boy was “known around the hospital as a doctor”, with multiple witnesses saying he had been seen walking around the hospital for approximately one month.
Surveillance video showed him “walking around hospital wings, but never entering any rooms or seeing any patients”, the police report said.
Nurses at the OB/GYN outpatient centre told police the boy had been inside an exam room while Dr Sebastian Kent conducted a patient examination. Dr Kent later discovered a note written by the boy on his desk, asking if he could “shadow” him.
When called to collect her son, the young man’s mother said he was under care for an undisclosed illness but refuses to take any medication.
Police confiscated his lab coat and all medical items but on agreement with hospital officials declined to pursue charges, The Smoking Gun reports.
Further investigation revealed the boy had also been spotted at a second hospital, the good Samaritan Medical Centre, where the hospital’s security director said she remembered a “younger black male dressed as a doctor walking out of the Emergency Room entrance” the previous week.
After searching the teenager’s van, police discovered a white lab coat with “Natural Medicine” embroidered on the chest, along with a “black doctor or nurse scrub-style top”.
12 Oct ’12
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Wow, a month? That's nuts if you really think about it...
18 Feb ’12
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We had an instance at our hospital where a faker did his cardiology residency at our hospital (4 years), then an invasive cardiology fellowship (doing heart caths and stents) for 3 years. It wasn't until he applied for a job with a large cardiology group, and they did a backround check, did anyone realize he hadn't gone to medical school anywhere.
If that wasn't bad enough, we had a manager hired for our emergency department from out of state. The vice president of nursing vouched for this nurse because their families had known each other from way back when. There was a bunch of bizarre occurrences, including this manager having an envelope of white powder slipped under her door and a bunch of us being questioned by the FBI, but nothing ever coming of the accusations and no one disciplined.
So one incredibly busy day I'm working with this manager after she was basically forced to work on the floor, and things aren't adding up. She's asking me questions any first year nurse should be able to answer and asking me (as a paramedic) to do things outside the scope of my practice. I mention it to a friend of mine who is a private investigator, who is also very connected with the hospital administrative staff. I forgot about the conversation, but find out later he looked into her, and she had never gone to nursing school. The closest she had ever come was being a nursing assistant and applying to nursing school.
In the meantime, she disappears, and the hunt for a new manager resumes. A couple of years later we found out, she got wind the gig was up, confiscated all of our personnel files, including social security numbers, and hit the road. She held all of our personal information hostage to keep the hospital from prosecuting her, all the while none of us knowing our identities were at risk (and probably still are).
The incredible thing is...a $100 backround check would have prevented all this from happening.
28 Feb ’12
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sounds llike in "catch me if you can"
15 Feb ’12
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ashleigh11 said
We had an instance at our hospital where a faker did his cardiology residency at our hospital (4 years), then an invasive cardiology fellowship (doing heart caths and stents) for 3 years. It wasn't until he applied for a job with a large cardiology group, and they did a backround check, did anyone realize he hadn't gone to medical school anywhere.If that wasn't bad enough, we had a manager hired for our emergency department from out of state. The vice president of nursing vouched for this nurse because their families had known each other from way back when. There was a bunch of bizarre occurrences, including this manager having an envelope of white powder slipped under her door and a bunch of us being questioned by the FBI, but nothing ever coming of the accusations and no one disciplined.
So one incredibly busy day I'm working with this manager after she was basically forced to work on the floor, and things aren't adding up. She's asking me questions any first year nurse should be able to answer and asking me (as a paramedic) to do things outside the scope of my practice. I mention it to a friend of mine who is a private investigator, who is also very connected with the hospital administrative staff. I forgot about the conversation, but find out later he looked into her, and she had never gone to nursing school. The closest she had ever come was being a nursing assistant and applying to nursing school.
In the meantime, she disappears, and the hunt for a new manager resumes. A couple of years later we found out, she got wind the gig was up, confiscated all of our personnel files, including social security numbers, and hit the road. She held all of our personal information hostage to keep the hospital from prosecuting her, all the while none of us knowing our identities were at risk (and probably still are).
The incredible thing is...a $100 backround check would have prevented all this from happening.
that's insane
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