Teenager pretended to be a doctor

Teenager pretends to be a doctor - and remains unrecognized for a month

01/21/2015

According to media reports, a teenager in the US spent a month unnoticed as a doctor. The adolescent had been in the examining room with a patient when he was exposed. The clinic waived an ad.

Teenage boy wore white coat with hospital logo
It sounds like a copy from the successful Hollywood movie „Catch me if you can“, in which the main actor Leonardo DiCaprio pretends to be an impostor among other things as a senior physician and treated patients. According to US media, a teenager in Palm Beach, Florida, has spent as a doctor. As the news channel KCTV5 reports, the adolescent always wore a white coat with the logo of the hospital and the inscription „anesthesia“. For weeks, he deceived employees and security personnel.

Dizziness was revealed only after one month
It took a month for the dizziness to fly up at St. Mary's Medical Center. The teenager wore a stethoscope around his neck, wore a mask, and was with a patient in an exam room when he was exposed. Dr. Sebastian Kent, a real doctor at the clinic, initially thought that he had a very young colleague in front of him. He said: „The first thing I thought was, 'I'm getting really old, because these young doctors look younger every year.'“ The physician then doubted more and informed the security service. This called the police.

False doctors also in Germany
It turned out that the staff of the teenager, who as „Dr. Robinson“ Although often seen in the hospital, but thought that he actually works there. The daddy's mother said her son was ill and did not take his medication. Hospital and police decided to give up an ad. The clinic announced that the young man had no access to the patients or their cases. In Germany, too, cases were repeatedly reported in which lay people spent as doctors and treated patients. For example, a man from Saxony-Anhalt was remanded in custody the previous year when it was revealed that he had spent his time in Lower Saxony as a physician. He had come up with titles like „Dr. med. univ. Mag. Psych.“ decorated and thus fifteen families with seriously ill children pretended to be a doctor. A foster boy had the wrong doctor even injected an emergency drug. (Ad)