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Real Life Blackjack Practiced Medicine For 8 Years
Date: 12/7/2005
Sankei Sports reports the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Consumer and Environmental Protection Division arrested a man for practincig medicine without a license on the 6th. The 33 year old man who lived in Meguro Ward, was charged with violation of the Medical Practitioners Law. Amazingly, the rogue surgeon worked for medical institutions in about 20 places as doctor for about 8 and a half years from April, 1997. Upon arrest he was employed doing diagnosis and treatment in three private hospitals in Tokyo and earning an annual income of about 20 million Yen. There were reportedly no complaint from patients at all. In past employment he used the data from a counterfeit license of a female doctor and claimed he received education as a Keio University Department of Medicine graduate. An investigation was launched last year after he began working in a hospital and did not respond to a request of submitting his original license.
Source: Anime News Service