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The Fake Doctor Who Hung a Diploma and Stayed for Year

The Fake Doctor Who Hung a Diploma and Stayed for Year

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The Fake Doctor Who Hung a Diploma and Stayed for Years

A small-town clinic trusted a woman who presented a printed diploma and a stolen DEA number, and she practiced medicine for four years, eight months, and twenty-five days before a girl’s paper route exposed the fraud - who was she really, and how did she keep it hidden so long? This episode unspools the concrete steps she took: a fabricated diploma from a nonexistent Harwick Regional College of Medicine, a copied DEA registration, and a decade of self-directed medical learning that replaced any formal training.

In this episode, you’ll hear the timeline from the January morning the diploma fell to the strings she pulled to get hired, the discrepancies that later alerted a nurse practitioner, and the community consequences of a clinic that had been without a doctor for eleven months; can the trust of a town explain how long the deception lasted?

Person: Rachel Callahan
Event: Diploma discovered by a fourteen-year-old on January 9, 2014
Duration: 4 years, 8 months, 25 days practicing before exposure
Institution: Harwick Regional College of Medicine (nonexistent)
Location: Clinic on Bender Road, Harwick, Indiana

- The fraudulent diploma was printed six weeks before Rachel’s job interview in March 2009 using Garamond font and gold embossing from a craft heat-stamp kit.
- Rachel copied a licensed physician Stuart Ames’s DEA registration number from a prescription slip and later used it on her own prescription pads.
- The clinic position had been vacant for eleven months after Dr. Howard Seel semi-retired and moved to Fort Wayne.
- Rachel had attended Indiana University for one semester and left after her father’s death in October 2001, then spent about three years working as a medical receptionist and trained as a phlebotomist.
- In spring 2011, nurse practitioner Sandra Teel found a discrepancy in the DEA registration number on Rachel’s prescription pads while reviewing controlled substance logs.

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