The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office Vice and Narcotics Unit assisted the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) in the investigation of a Hernando County man for Unlicensed Practice of a Healthcare Profession. An investigator from the FDOH advised detectives that the man allegedly advertised his services on a website called El…
A Jupiter man’s license to practice medicine was suspended in 2015 after he was allegedly found dispensing powerful pain medications to drug addicts, patients with mental-health issues and, in one case, a “morbidly obese” woman complaining she couldn’t bend over. According to law-enforcement officials, the man offered to diagnose and…
A woman accused of pretending to be a nurse and treating patients at a Lake County home healthcare facility has been arrested and charged with running an unlicensed assisted living facility. According to Lake County sheriff’s detectives, this is not the woman’s first run in with the law. Before she…
A suburban Lake Worth woman who was previously arrested for practicing dentistry without a license was arrested last week on similar allegations, according to authorities. As of last week, she was being held at the Palm Beach County Jail with no bail. The 34-year-old doctor was arrested in April on…
The trial of an 18-year-old teen accused of impersonating a physician assistant and four counts of practicing medicine without a license is scheduled to commence Tuesday in Florida. The teen was 17 at the time he allegedly worked at the Osceola Regional Medical Center in the emergency room, changing bandages,…
A woman who supposedly wanted a curvier body for cheap allegedly paid a woman posing as a doctor to inject her buttocks with cement, mineral oil and flat-tire sealant. According to police, the suspect was born a man and identifies as a woman. She is accused of performing this toxic…