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alpha12 said:
‘It was all a lie:’ Fake doc who ran clinics for 15 years gets prison

"She had no license to practice medicine in the U.S. but still wore a white coat, went on the radio giving health advice and got a National Provider Identifier for insurance billing." 15 years she was practicing and billing insurers.
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She represented herself as a naturopathic doctor. I wouldn’t equate that to practicing medicine.

You are not going to have an MA show up at an ER for 10 years and fake taking care of patients
 
PharmFarmed said:
Did you go to the Rudy Jiuliani School of Moving Goalposts?
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How is this even equivalent, you have people who completed medical training practicing medicine without a license to equating it to never receiving formal training and performing the job for 10 years!

The most you hear about is some kid faking it for a few weeks until it becomes very obvious to everyone around.
 
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allantois said:
She represented herself as a naturopathic doctor. I wouldn’t equate that to practicing medicine.

You are not going to have an MA show up at an ER for 10 years and fake taking care of patients
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Alright Id provide proof of that but its clear you are moving the goal posts. You should have just taken the L on this. Have a nice day.
 
allantois said:
How is this even equivalent, you have people who completed medical training practicing medicine without a license to equating it to never receiving formal training and performing the job for 10 years!

The most you hear about is some kid faking it for a few weeks until it becomes very obvious to everyone around.
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I showed you someone who practiced and billed insurers for 15 years. You lost. Just take the L
 
Apparently some pharmacists on here are triggered about a tech faking their job for 10 years lol

I digress
 
alpha12 said:
I showed you someone who practiced and billed insurers for 15 years. You lost. Just take the L
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I must have missed the part where she advertised herself as a physician. She did offer some pseudoscientific mubmo jumbo that doesn’t qualify as a practice of medicine.
 
allantois said:
Apparently some pharmacists on here are triggered about a tech faking their job for 10 years lol

I digress
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Acually I am a software developer but nice try. There are more fake docs and fake pharmacists. Real pharmacists dont like practicing so I doubt there are a lot of a fake ones.
 
allantois said:
How is this even equivalent, you have people who completed medical training practicing medicine without a license to equating it to never receiving formal training and performing the job for 10 years!

The most you hear about is some kid faking it for a few weeks until it becomes very obvious to everyone around.
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"According to the complaint, Le began working for Walgreens, the second-largest drugstore chain in the United States, as a cashier on Sept. 20, 1999. Two years later she began working as a pharmacy technician and an intern pharmacist. In 2006, she began working as a pharmacist."

On top of that, none of the mentioned articles stated that they had any experience prior to practicing medicine. The OBGYN faked credentials to get into a residency and successfully completed residency. That means he pretended to be a licensed physician, without ever having experience or having gone to medical school, and still successfully completed residency and boards. The other lady dropped out after first year of medical school. If anything, the pharmacist had much more training and still made countless errors that lead to the inquiry.
 
alpha12 said:
Acually I am a software developer but nice try. There are more fake docs and fake pharmacists. Real pharmacists dont like practicing so I doubt there are a lot of a fake ones.
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Well then I don’t blame you for not being able to differentiate what constitutes a medical practice 🙂
 
PharmFarmed said:
"According to the complaint, Le began working for Walgreens, the second-largest drugstore chain in the United States, as a cashier on Sept. 20, 1999. Two years later she began working as a pharmacy technician and an intern pharmacist. In 2006, she began working as a pharmacist."

On top of that, none of the mentioned articles stated that they had any experience prior to practicing medicine. The OBGYN faked credentials to get into a residency and successfully completed residency. That means he pretended to be a licensed physician, without ever having experience or having gone to medical school, and still successfully completed residency and boards. The other lady dropped out after first year of medical school. If anything, the pharmacist had much more training and still made countless errors that lead to the inquiry.
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Are we reading the same article? It states she used a fake license of someone with a similar name and that there is no proof that she was ever enrolled in a pharmacy degree program.
 
allantois said:
Apparently some pharmacists on here are triggered about a tech faking their job for 10 years lol

I digress
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I mean I just think it is funny that some posters think this could only happen to pharmacists. Apparently some people on here get triggered when you point out that they are wrong.
 
owlegrad said:
I mean I just think it is funny that some posters think this could only happen to pharmacists. Apparently some people on here get triggered when you point out that they are wrong.
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Worst part is there are more docs that practice without a license. This usually never happens in pharmacy.
 
PharmFarmed said:
I think it'll benefit you to do a little reading before responding.

https://www.pharmacy.ca.gov/enforcement/accusations/ac176325.pdf
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Wanna quote pertinent information from that letter?

Here, I can do this for you:

Respondent Le is subject to discipline under section 4301, subdivision (f) ofthe Code, in that Respondent, as described in paragraphs 30 to 40 above, committed acts involving moral turpitude, dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or corruption, when she posed as an intern pharmacist and pharmacist, accepted employment in those capacities, and acted as a pharmacist-in-charge, all without having the appropriate licensure to perform the necessary tasks.
 
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DagS132 said:
Lol. Frank Abagnale pulled the same move as a doctor. And he was just a high school drop out.
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I'm not here to debate the medicine side of this. Frank Abagnale only pulled it off for a few months and he was doing mostly administrative stuff. It was actually when a nurse asked him to make a clinical decision that he was outed. This fake pharmacist was verifying scripts and making clinical decisions basically on every script for 10 years.
 
Lnsean said:
I'm not here to debate the medicine side of this. Frank Abagnale only pulled it off for a few months and he was doing mostly administrative stuff. It was actually when a nurse asked him to make a clinical decision that he was outed. This fake pharmacist was verifying scripts and making clinical decisions basically on every script for 10 years.
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If only Frank worked as a nurse during his grade school years. He probably could have pulled it off for a longer time.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if there are MANY fake pharmacists that never get a degree. If they caught one, there must be others all over the US: using someone else name, fake credentials, working for independents/corp/hospitals.

I can imagine few foreign grads bought a degree/fake transcripts with bribes (think of third world country). Come here with H1B during the pharmacy boom/lax hiring standards, studied NAPLEX and passed. How does corporate verify they actually went to class and graduated? They can't. (Well, at least they pass NAPLEX...)

Every profession has a successful faker, you can't catch them all.
 
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You don't know if this fake pharmacist verified the prescriptions correctly unless Walgreens re-verified all of her prescriptions. She did work as a tech then as an intern although there is no indication that she enrolled into a pharmacy school.
 
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