Trust Me. I'm (Not) a Doctor

By Chuck Sudo in News on May 17, 2011 1:30PM

Let's start off the day with some news of the weird, shall we? There's a man out there passing himself off as a doctor, using toothpicks as acupuncture and prescribing pills that expired nine years ago to people who read Bulgairan language newspapers.

An unwitting patient responded to an ad in the Bulgarian language paper on April 23. When he visited the fake doctor's purported office, the building seemed to be closed, with no one around except for the "doctor," who was dressed in a lab coat. The "doctor" the stuck toothpicks in the man's chest as acupuncture — which isn't as far-fetched as it seems — and gave him a bottle of pills called "Prosperous Farmer Dietary Supplements" and was told to take them every day until gone.

The pills expired in February 2002.

For all this, the "doctor" billed the man $200. Makes one wonder if there was a prostate exam involved with this no one's talking about. Anyway, the man finally became suspicious when he called the clinic three days later, only to be told no doctor by the name the "doctor" gave him worked there. The man brought his son back to the clinic on April 30, when the "doctor" ran out of the building, locked it behind him and ran eastbound on Golf Road.