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On October 6, 2002, the New York Post published an investigation into Faiello titled He'll Make Your Skin Crawl.He was arrested two days later on three counts of practicing medicine without a license, but was released on bail with the condition that he refrain from treating patients.
A medical certificate or doctor's certificate [1] [2] is a written statement from a physician or another medically qualified health care provider which attests to the result of a medical examination of a patient. [3] It can serve as a sick note (UK: fit note) (documentation that an employee is unfit for work) or evidence of a health condition. [4]
Patients too, may participate in this. A common method is the forging of doctor prescriptions to gain access to prescription medications. A somewhat rarer type is a citizen posing as a doctor to, among other things, gain access to the free samples of drugs that some drug manufacturers give out. The samples may also be sold to desperate patients ...
Two pharmacists at Rocky Hill Pharmacy have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with fake prescriptions to defraud Medicare and Tennessee's Medicaid program of more than $8.7 million.
The General Medical Council, which regulates doctors, says only "medical professionals" can prescribe antibiotics and Botox and they should only do so if they have "adequate knowledge" of the patient.
Around 25% of India's drugs are fake, counterfeit or substandard. If the fake drugs market grows at the current rate of 25%, it will cross the US$10 billion mark by 2017. Trade in fake drugs is driven caused by lack of adequate regulations, shortage of drug inspectors and a lack of lab facilities to check the purity of drugs.
RICHMOND, Ca. (KTLA) -- Authorities announced recently that they were seeking additional victims of a man who allegedly posed as a doctor and operated a fake cancer treatment clinic in Northern ...
Prescriptions may be entered into an electronic medical record system and transmitted electronically to a pharmacy. Alternatively, a prescription may be handwritten on preprinted prescription forms that have been assembled into pads, or printed onto similar forms using a computer printer or even on plain paper, according to the circumstances ...