"Frank Abagnale succesfully impersonated both an airline pilot and a chief resident pediatrician (among any other number of ruses)."
Posted on 12/13/2010 7:51:30 AM PST by KeyLargo
"Frank Abagnale succesfully impersonated both an airline pilot and a chief resident pediatrician (among any other number of ruses)."
I can’t believe any company would insure him without a background check.
Let’s not forget Ferdinand Waldo Demara, portrayed by Tony Curtis in the 1960 movie “The Great Imposter”.
There is no evidence to support your statement.
Shades of Ferdinand W. Demara.(”The Great Imposter”)
Makes you wonder about them doesn't it? It's one thing to discuss electrophysiology from a book. It's another to be confronted by a gravely ill patient and decide on the correct course of action. Real cardiologists do six years of residency (3 years internal medicine 3 years cardiology) - not something you can learn from a book.
There is no evidence to support your statement.
You're sure right about that, but it seems that hardly anyone posting on this thread actually read the article.
Clarifying some of the points in the article that contradict a lot of the replies that have been posted:
There is no indication Hamman ever treated a patient
Hamman's formal education consists of only an associate's degree (in general aviation flight technology) and a bachelor of science degree. After only a few years, he was a medical school drop out
As Dr. Stephen Mester, a Florida cardiologist who took one of Hamman's sessions at a cardiologist conference last spring says: "In a sense, he didn't talk about anything medical...I did not find it worthwhile"
What Hamman was doing was using his education and training in aviation simulation and applying it to medical simulations; teaching team work through the use of simulations. As it says in the article, he really wouldn't have needed to be a medical doctor to do what he was doing. Presenting himself as a medical doctor, obtaining appointments, employment positions and research grants using fake credentials, shows that Hamman is a psyche case.
In this March 14, 2010 file photo, William Hamman watches data on a computer as he supervises doctors performing euthenasia on elderly patients. Pillows are no longer used to help reduce costs.
Why not? The same pillow can be used again and again, and it's a lot cheaper than using drugs.
There is no evidence to support your statement.
How about evidence that you read the article?
...what KeyLargo said...
Just because you can bullsh!t a good game doesn’t mean you can actually play. This guy’s faking it well does NOT equate to meaning that he’s qualified.
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