FAKE DOC ARRESTED AFTER “TREATING” 500 PATIENTS
Ernest Osei Addo, 48, is accused of treating as many as 500 patients in South Carolina without a license.
He was hired by Agape Senior, which operates 23 nursing and assisted living facilities throughout the Midlands area, in February. Lexington County Sheriff James Metts said he presented the company with a medical license.
But an Orangeburg, S.C., doctor told police that Addo had stolen his identity. In addition to practicing medicine under his name, the doctor said, Addo was running up his credit card bills.
Addo was arrested at his Austell, Ga., home Friday – two days after he quit his job at Agape Senior. Police are looking into whether he had any medical training or has ever had a license to practice medicine. He has no criminal record.
In a statement, Agape Senior said Addo “came highly recommended from his previous employer where he practiced as a physician.”
The company only learned of Addo’s alleged identity theft on the day he quit, according to chief clinical officer Janet DiNino, and is cooperating with police in their investigation.
SOURCE: NYD
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