This story comes to us out of Florida, and it hard to believe this could happen in this day and age in this country.
The message: always check a medical person’s credentials!
An 18-year-old man is under arrest in South Florida after he allegedly posed as a doctor and even opened his own medical practice.
According to the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Malachi Love-Robinson, known as Dr. Robinson, was busted after police set up a sting operation.
The young man posed as a 25-year-old with a Ph.D.
Even other doctors in the area believed him.
But someone got suspicious and called the cops. They began an investigation and what they found out was shocking the West Palm Beach community. Dr. Robinson is a fake.
According to police, he was giving physical exams and medical advice at what he called his “holistic medical clinic.”
Reports the Sun-Sentinel, Dr. Sebastian Kent, an OB/GYN in the same vicinity, said that he was amazed to learn that the young man was a fake.
“I’ve been in practice for 36 years, this is the first time something like this has happened,” he said. “It’s very strange. Very, very strange.”
Robinson has been charged with practicing medicine without a license and he is in custody at the Palm Beach County Jail. His bond was set at $6,000.
His grandfather told the Sun-Sentinel that it’s all a big misunderstanding and that his grandson never claimed to be a medical physician, just a holistic doctor.
The health department for the state of Florida, however, says that he is not certified and that he was in fact ordered to “cease and desist” last year, but he failed to do so.
Health department officials called the Sheriff’s Office and an undercover officer went in to see Robinson.
Reportedly, Robinson gave the undercover agent a medical exam and advice, and then he was arrested on the spot.
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