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Title: Dear Doctor, please don't use fake credentials to get licensed and practice
Post by: MillCreek on January 08, 2019, 02:23:07 PM
https://www.statnews.com/2019/01/03/charles-akoda-obgyn-fraud-patients/

I am thinking that this guy and the Mid-east physician who doesn't like Jewish people could set up one hell of a clinic together.
Title: Re: Dear Doctor, please don't use fake credentials to get licensed and practice
Post by: AmbulanceDriver on January 08, 2019, 02:45:18 PM
I read that article with growing shock, anger, and sadness.   Were I (or more accurately my wife) one of his victims, well...  let's just say that my thoughts wander rather far from the "polite" part of APS.
Title: Re: Dear Doctor, please don't use fake credentials to get licensed and practice
Post by: Boomhauer on January 08, 2019, 04:56:27 PM
Sounds like he is prime VA material
Title: Re: Dear Doctor, please don't use fake credentials to get licensed and practice
Post by: Brad Johnson on January 08, 2019, 05:37:12 PM
Wow. Sounds like this guy went to a lot of trouble to get where he was. It also makes you very leery of anyone in the medical community who hasn't been through a comprehensive background check, up to and including verification of education credentials from a legit domestic institution.

Brad
Title: Re: Dear Doctor, please don't use fake credentials to get licensed and practice
Post by: Angel Eyes on January 08, 2019, 06:36:34 PM
MillCreek's posts on APS have me viewing my medical appointments with a lot more trepidation.

Ignorance was bliss.
Title: Re: Dear Doctor, please don't use fake credentials to get licensed and practice
Post by: BobR on January 08, 2019, 07:01:43 PM
Quote from: Angel Eyes on January 08, 2019, 06:36:34 PM
MillCreek's posts on APS have me viewing my medical appointments with a lot more trepidation.

Ignorance was bliss.


If you are just now getting there you are too late. Luckily I have always had a choice of good docs to see and recently I have been going to a Nurse Practioner Residency Clinic. They are graduated ARNPs but are getting another 18 months of training under a Physician before they are turned loose. I like that they do that, plus with an ARNP I can drive my care a little better. ;)

bob