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HIGH-SCHOOL GRADUATE POSES AS DOCTOR FOR OVER A YEAR
A 20-year-old woman in Turkey has been arrested after it was revealed that she worked as a doctor in a public hospital, despite having never studied medicine.
Ayşe Özkiraz’s family had always wanted her to become a doctor, so after graduating from high school, she took the medical school exam but failed. She didn’t want to let her family down, so instead of admitting her failure and moving on, she told them that she had gotten into the prestigious Capa Medical University and that she was studying to become a doctor. She even faked her exam score and her enrollment papers so that her parents would not suspect anything, but this was only the beginning of her deception.
“When I was a high school student, my parents wanted me to study in a medical school. They thought I would get a high score. But I did not get a good enough score to get into medical school,” Ayse recently explained. “When my family wanted to see the exam result document, I prepared a fake exam result document and showed it to them.”
But the young girl did more than just lie to her family; she started lying to everyone. She settled into an Istanbul dormitory and told people that she was a medical student. She also printed a fake student ID card and started hanging around Capa Medical University, meeting actual med students.
One day, when her mother got sick and had to be taken to a hospital, Ayşe came home to be with her parent and actually started telling staff at their local hospital that she was a doctor herself. She also lied about her age, claiming to be 25 when she was only 20 years old, and used fake university student cards, doctor ID cards, and even a plaque showing that she had graduated at the top of her class, in order to make her lie believable.
After gaining the trust of the hospital staff, Ayşe was offered the chance to work there, and she jumped at the opportunity, despite having never studied or practiced medicine.
“Over time, I gained the love and trust of the doctors in the hospital. A chief physician, whom I told that I wanted to become a pediatric surgeon, even invited me to an operation. During the surgery, he told me, “Come on, you stitch the wound,'” she said.
Somehow, the 20-year-old managed to pose as a doctor, but despite her efforts, there was only so much she could do. Eventually, real doctors at the hospital became suspicious, because she kept avoiding answering basic medical questions or simply answered them wrongly. When they became convinced that she was lying about her training, the staff called the police.
While searching Ayşe’s rented apartment, police found several fake ID cards from several hospitals in Turkey, counterfeit documents, and medical uniforms. She was arrested and eventually admitted to posing as a doctor for more than a year.
The woman’s parents still can’t believe that their child would lie to them, and they believe that there must be more to Ayşe’s story.
“My child would never attempt such a thing,” her mother told reporters. “She ate meals in operating theaters; the head doctor was with her, too. She is in photographs with the doctor. When we chatted on video calls, she is sitting in the room with the nurses. Are these all lies? We can’t understand anything!”
Ayşe isn’t the first person to pose as a doctor. A woman in France posed as an ophthalmologist for more than 3 years, without ever having studied medicine. Another woman in India managed to work as a doctor for five years before being discovered and exposed as a fraud. Although you yourself will probably never meet a fake doctor, it is always wise to ask for a second medical opinion, just in case.
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