Bonus Episode 36

DESCRIPTION: 

Becoming a doctor takes years of dedication and ongoing training. Patients who are physically or mentally unwell, rely on medical professionals, trusting them implicitly to guide them back to health when they are at their most vulnerable. Nonetheless, there are instances when appearances can be deceiving, times when the family doctor isn’t a doctor at all, using a medical title they are not qualified to claim, and ruthlessly risking the safety of unwitting patients for personal gain… 

*** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** 

This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.

Script editing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton

Narration, audio editing, additional writing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.

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MUSIC: 

Changing Tide by Moments 

Liminal by Chelsea McGough

The Arctic by Gold Coast 

Things Gone Wrong by Moments 

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REFERENCES: 

NEWSBANK

News Shopper (England), July 26, 2011

Daily Mail (London, England), October 25, 2011

Daily Mirror, The (London, England), October 25, 2011

Sun, The (London, England), October 25, 2011

Daily Mirror, The (London, England), October 26, 2011

Times, The (London, England), October 26, 2011

Daily Telegraph, The (London, England), December 7, 2016

getwestlondon.co.uk (England), December 7, 2016

News Shopper (England), December 7, 2016

Sun, The (London, England), December 7, 2016

Royal Borough Observer, The (Windsor, England), December 9, 2016

South London Press (England), December 9, 2016

Evening Standard: Web Edition Articles (London, England), January 13, 2017

getwestlondon.co.uk (England), January 13, 2017

Slough & South Bucks Observer (England), January 22, 2017

Daily Telegraph, The (London, England), July 18, 2015

Herald, The/Sunday Herald, The (Glasgow, Scotland), July 18, 2015

Sun, The (London, England), July 18, 2015

Daily Mail (London, England), April 2, 2011

UK Government News (UK), July 21, 2011

Birmingham Mail (England), September 27, 2012

ONLINE ARTICLES

https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/fraudster-caught-trying-trick-nhs-12281744

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-15438332

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-38599673

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-38224757

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2246541/Bogus-doctor-told-pay-270-000-earned-10-years-pretending-GP.html

https://tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/2017-ukut-196

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/sheffield-pervert-led-double-life-as-a-doctor-for-34-years-1926767

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2014970/Civil-servant-posed-GP-molest-patients.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11565976/Fraudulent-doctor-who-claimed-to-look-after-the-Queen-conned-patients-out-of-160k-court-hears.html

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/573313/Fraudster-claimed-Queen-doctor-swindle-vulnerable-patients-170k

https://www.thecomet.net/news/22193197.bogus-doctor-fraudulently-pocketed-156-000-left-herts-patients-fearing-health-put-behind-bars/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3142481/Conman-tricked-people-believing-Queen-s-doctor-jailed-four-years-swindling-people-160-000.html

https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/fake-doctor-imprisoned-forgery-and-fraud-costing-taxpayer-over-ps1m

https://cfa.nhs.uk/fraud-prevention/fraud-prevention-reports/preventing-procurement-fraud-in-the-NHS/pp-executive-summary

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/15/fake-doctor-zholia-alemi-nhs-guilty-fraud

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/19/thousands-of-doctors-under-scrutiny-after-fake-qualifications-case

https://www.independent-practitioner-today.co.uk/2021/07/get-tough-on-fake-doctors-says-mdu/