He saw 26 patients one day:
On March 30, Sanchez-Arias saw 26 patients, including one man who had an ear infection, McNulty said.“He said to the nurse, ‘What kind of antibiotics do you give for this?’ And she said, ‘You’re the doctor,’” McNulty said.
Such behavior aroused suspicions among the clinic’s staff. It is unclear if Sanchez-Arias treated other patients since March.
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26 patients a day. Damn! I can’t even drum up 26 patients in a day.
People like this make me sick. Fortunately, he was caught before he did too much harm. The people served at these walk in clinics tend to be the most vulnerable to this sort of thing because many are low SES and are not educated about how to verify that the doctorbeing seen is legitamte. There doesn’t seem to be any realistic way to prevent this sort of thing, but vigalence by other can put a stop to it pretty quickly.
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America is such a great country!
There is more money in quackery than there is in legitimate medicine–one of the reasons being is that it takes less time to pretend to practice medicine than it does to actually practice it. So the quacks and pretenders–liscensed or not–see more patients and make more money.
After working as one of the “bad guys” in Medicaid admin for a while and being shocked at what I have seen, I ALWAYS start with a verification check on the liscensure boards web sites before seeing anyone–and that is just a start. One of the more common ploys of fakes is to use the name of an inactive doctor who has retired and moved, I also look on the internet for telltale signs like birthdate irregularities or evidence that the doctor retired and moved away and is residing elsewhere. Of course the best thing is a referral from the primary care guy.
If Crim had his way, this would be the way medicine is practiced. Caveat emptor.
Equating NPs with the equivalent of a chirofrauder? Do you set up straw men regularly oh hayseed or just in this case?
~Criminallopath~
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