ware4me
12-29-2008, 01:21 PM
Some people fake it till they make it, while others… just fake it.
Meet Yukio Hasegawa, a 65 year-old Japanese man who spent nearly 30 years pretending to be a doctor.
Yukio was caught by police while questioning him about a 2005 speeding violation and admitting to posing as a doctor since 1980, when he assumed the identity of a real doctor using a photocopied license.
Yukio told police that he learned about medical treatment in 1978 by reading patient’s charts while he was working as an X-ray vehicle driver in Tokyo, Japan.
He was arrested for providing medical services without a license to 10 people for about a year through October 2008.
Yukio earned about $165,000 as a fake doctor at a clinic in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture since around 1994. He saw 20-30 patients a day, mostly as an orthopedist.
Amazingly enough, not a single patient ever complained about any lingering health problems related to their treatment. More at: asahi.com (http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200811220060.html)
Meet Yukio Hasegawa, a 65 year-old Japanese man who spent nearly 30 years pretending to be a doctor.
Yukio was caught by police while questioning him about a 2005 speeding violation and admitting to posing as a doctor since 1980, when he assumed the identity of a real doctor using a photocopied license.
Yukio told police that he learned about medical treatment in 1978 by reading patient’s charts while he was working as an X-ray vehicle driver in Tokyo, Japan.
He was arrested for providing medical services without a license to 10 people for about a year through October 2008.
Yukio earned about $165,000 as a fake doctor at a clinic in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture since around 1994. He saw 20-30 patients a day, mostly as an orthopedist.
Amazingly enough, not a single patient ever complained about any lingering health problems related to their treatment. More at: asahi.com (http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200811220060.html)