The U.K.’s General Medical Council revealed Sunday that a psychologist employed for over two decades by the national healthcare system was a fraudster who’d fabricated her qualifications in the 1990s and, despite multiple warning signs, had been scamming the system and patients ever since — and getting a hefty paycheck to do it. Her decades-long fraud was only discovered when she attempted to fake the will of an elderly patient to scam $2.4 million from her family.
In a series of statements about the embarrassing failure to properly vet the faux-psychiatrist, who has since been sentenced to five years in prison, the GMC assured the public that they’d significantly improved their vetting process since the scam artist was hired and provided patients of the fake psychologist information on what to do if they felt they’d been harmed.
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