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An unlicensed medical practitioner who pretended to be a doctor for nearly 30 years was handed over to trial after an investigation by the prosecution.
Suwon District Prosecutors' Office 2nd Criminal Division (Chief Prosecutor Yang Seon-soon) announced today (5th) that it has arrested and indicted Mr. A (60 years old) on charges such as forgery of public documents, events of forged public documents, violation of the Health Crimes Control Act (false medical practitioner), and fraud. About
30 Mr. A, who was a medical student four years ago, graduated from medical school in 1993 without obtaining a doctor's
license, and even though he was unable to practice medicine because he did not have a doctor's license, he forged his license and letter of appointment from 1995 and got a job at a hospital
. Because he was actually attending medical school, it is said that the hospital directors who hired him did not doubt the doctor's license given by
Mr. A. There were more than 60 hospitals nationwide where Mr. A worked, including Seoul and Suwon.
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He was hired for a short-term, mainly in the form of an 'unregistered hired doctor', was given an electronic medical record code in the name of the hospital director, and treated and issued prescriptions in the name of the hospital director.
The prosecution found that the hospitals that hired Mr. A committed unregistered medical practices for reasons such as cost reduction, such as subscription to employment insurance.
It was investigated that Mr. A, who had even performed surgical operations without a license, made a medical accident while drinking and reached an urgent agreement.
Mr. A's fake doctor was revealed when a hospital official who was suspicious of Mr. A's medical behavior requested the police to investigate.
In the police investigation, Mr. A's claim that he hid the fact that he had no license, saying "his medical license was revoked," was also found to be false through supplementary investigations such as seizure and search by the prosecution and account tracking.
The prosecution revealed Mr. A's forgery and exercise of doctor's license for the last 8 years (October 2014 to December 2022), and unlicensed orthopedic medical practice, and handed Mr. A to trial on the 2nd.
During this period, only the salary confirmed in Mr. A’s account was about 500 million won.
In addition, the prosecution indicted one general hospital medical foundation and eight private hospital directors without detention on charges of violating the Health Crimes Control Act (fraudulent medical practitioners), who hired unregistered people to conduct medical treatment under the name of the hospital director without properly checking whether Mr. A had obtained a medical license. I did.
An official from the prosecution said, “If some hospitals hire short-term or large-scale doctors but do not register or report the hired doctors, they treat patients under the name and license code of a doctor other than the doctor who actually treated the patient, and prescriptions are issued, adversely affecting public health. "To prevent a recurrence, we plan to suggest institutional improvements to the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korean Medical Association, such as the need for a full investigation of the current situation and the disclosure of information related to doctor's licenses," he said.
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