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In real life, has it ever happened that some man working as a cleaner...


... or someone else at the hospital other than a doctor or another kind of medical staff, simply, albeit in a name of good, falsified paper work, took someone with chest problems to a different ward and in process saved that person's life, and got nothing for it as a result, not to mention, it may have been risky and unallowed in and of itself? Like in this movie?

Anyone know, thanks.

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In this forum, has it ever happened that someone trying to make a convoluted point out of their obviously drugged brain's ridiculous mindflow, has typed a lot of nonsense that amounts to exactly nothing due to their sub-par command of the english language, especially when they try to express aforementioned mindflow with their lousy grammar, ending up using words wrong, and then selecting the wrong words, like in your post?

Anyone know? Thanks.

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OK, some of us are into parodies, fine. πŸ˜€

But seriously... Just like how in this movie, Harrison Ford's character, whilst on the run from the LAW (albeit for a crime he didn't commit), moonlighting as a hospital πŸ₯ cleaner, able to save someone's life whilst off his medical duty, and succeed. Plausible in the slightest? 😏

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There have been stories of people who faked being a doctor and performed actual procedures. Kind of 'Catch me if you can' scenarios. Just google 'fake doctor' and see what you come up with - it's happened.

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And in those cases, like the scene from this movie, they actually did good jobs? (Although in this movie, the man WAS a doctor who in this instance faked being a cleaner while being on the run from the police following an accusation of his wife's murder.)

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I think they did okay, at least in the one case I read about. I'd google it, but you can do the same.

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True.

But lol, its interesting how someone in this film can do it while posing as a cleaner and being on the run from the law. Lol :)

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Most of these people are more likely drop outs of medical school, because of misbehave or grades. So they have basic knowledge about everything. The cases I heard were usually fake docs, who just failed in their final exams and then faked their certificate to get hired. If they are not doing some mistakes like prescribing wrong drugs (there were reasons, why these people were sorted out!) or getting crazy and want to become a big honcho in the hospital, they seldom get caught, as soon they have a job.

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Tony Curtis made a movie about a real-life guy like that, Ferdinand Demara. Faked being a doctor and several other professions, and mostly got away with it.

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