A “bogus doctor” who faked his way to a job Middlemore Hospital had tried to get other jobs too, Googling how to remove moles and make cuts in skin.<\/p>\n
Yuvaraj Krishnan, 31, was sentenced to three and a half years jail in the Manukau District Court today.<\/p>\n
He got the job as a respiratory fellow at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, faking a practicing certificate, references, CVs and academic records.<\/p>\n
It was largely research based but he also wrote prescriptions and made referrals, seeing 80 patients in total.<\/p>\n
He was found out when a colleague recognised his name and remembered him from an earlier incident where he had pretended to be a medical student for two years at the University of Auckland even though he never got in.<\/p>\n
He later started a medical degree in Poland, but never finished, and used that as the basis for fake qualifications.<\/p>\n
It emerged he had unsuccessfully applied for several other jobs between 2020 and 2021 pretending to be a doctor.<\/p>\n
For one, at a dermatology clinic, he Googled how to carry out procedures.<\/p>\n
Krishnan’s lawyer Steve Cullen said the man had a “perverse compulsion” to work as a doctor and underlying psychological problems.<\/p>\n
His brothers went to study in the United States at Harvard and Princeton Universities and he felt emotional pressure being left at home – and to keep up with their success.<\/p>\n
But the prosecution said the deception was sophisticated, happened many times, and involved vulnerable patients.<\/p>\n
Judge Nevin Dawson said Krishnan has a distorted sense of self entitlement and put patients at risk.<\/p>\n
The bulk of the offending could not be blamed on psychological problems and family pressures, he said,<\/p>\n
“People thought they were being seen by a suitably qualified medical professional. They were not and their on going health was compromised because of that,” he said.<\/p>\n
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SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n
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