4 – Man Impersonates Doctor to Pick Up Women,
- Two-time divorcee Tammi McCreary thought she’d hit the jackpot when she met Eric Perteet. Eric was a former doctor who was supposedly taking a break from practising medicine while he got over the death of his two sons.
- Tammi and Eric married four months after meeting and a few months later Eric was offered a job at Atlanta’s Piedmont Hospital. For two months, Tammi dropped Eric off at the hospital, waving goodbye as he went in to work.
- Of course, Eric was no doctor and had never been to medical school. He’d once watched an episode of ER, but didn’t like it very much. In May 2008, he was arrested for impersonating a doctor. He’d been hanging around in waiting rooms and doctors’ lounges, stealing hospital property and hitting on women.
- Tammi also discovered that Eric’s two sons were alive and well and that her new husband had been having an affair with a woman at the hospital. Eric pled guilty to theft and identity fraud in 2009.
3 – Oneal Ron Morris,
- Oneal Ron Morris was a transgender woman with no medical training who specialised in giving women injections to enhance their curves.
- Operating under the alias ‘Duchess’, she visited patients wearing scrubs and a stethoscope and injected a concoction of Fix-a-Flat, rubber cement, mineral oil, and an industrial sealant. The wounds were then closed up using superglue and cotton balls. Despite how deadly these procedures were, her illegal business thrived from 2007–2011.
- Unfortunately, the results for patients were disastrous. One paid $3,000 to have the toxic concoction injected into her face and developed a massive pus-filled blister. She said she felt like ‘a monster’, was afraid to leave the house and is still permanently scarred. Another woman died from massive systemic silicone migration.
- Oneal was arrested for practising medicine without a licence and manslaughter.
2 – Fake Doctor Learned to Perform Surgery from YouTube,
- Because he “loves and wants to help people”, ex-con-turned-fake-doctor Rick Van Thiel ran an illegal medical facility out of a Las Vegas trailer.
- He claimed to have been studying medicine for thirty years, but didn’t bother formalising it with an actual degree. Instead, Rick proudly taught himself and claims he learned most of what he knows from YouTube videos.
- He has thirty felony counts for practising medicine without a license and was accused of performing gruesome abortions inside his trailer. He also a history of assault and burglary, so stand-up guy overall.
1 – Fake Doctor Lives Elaborate Lie for Eighteen Years,
- With an intricate web of lies, Jean-Claude Romand posed as a doctor for eighteen years. In truth, Romand hadn’t even passed his first-year medical exam, but instead of studying hard and retaking it, he just told everyone he passed and pretended to go to school.
- After fake graduating, he secured a fake joke with the prestigious World Health Organisation, where he claimed to go in every day after dropping off the kids. Instead of working, he walked around, read books and hung out in cafés all day. To appear knowledgeable to his family, he studied free information from local health facilities, and spent weekends in hotels with his mistress under the guise of attending ‘medical conferences’. Somehow he perpetuated this lie for eighteen years.
- To support his lifestyle, Romand convinced his wife’s parents to sell their apartment and give him the money to ‘invest’. He also stole money from his own parents and mistress to fund his lies. However, when his mistress demanded her money back, Romand’s scheme turn a dark turn.
- Unable to think of a way out, he beat his wife to death with a rolling pin and shot his two children in the head. The next day, he drove to his parents’ house, ate with them, then shot them and their dog dead. He also attacked his mistress, but reconsidered halfway through.
- Returning home, he tried escaping his predicament by taking a handful of sedatives, setting the house on fire and falling asleep. However, he survived both.
- He was soon after arrested, convicted, and given a life sentence. I doubt he could spin that into a trip to a medical conference.
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