{"id":385748,"date":"2018-11-20T00:02:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T23:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-fake-doctor-practiced-for-22-years-in-uk-report\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T00:02:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T23:02:04","slug":"presstv-fake-doctor-practiced-for-22-years-in-uk-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-fake-doctor-practiced-for-22-years-in-uk-report\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Fake doctor practiced for 22 years in UK: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A\u00a0fake doctor has managed to practice in the country for more than two decades without officials in the National Health Service (NHS) noticing it, according\u00a0to\u00a0British media reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reports\u00a0on Monday said that Zholia Alemi had made checks on thousands of patients since 1995 when she first registered in the UK as a psychiatrist.<\/p>\n<p>But officials jailed Alemi in October after it became clear that her claim\u00a0to have a primary medical qualification with a degree from the University of Auckland in New Zealand was fraudulent.<\/p>\n<p>Alemi\u2019s secret was exposed when it was revealed last year that she had taken advantage of an elderly patient and tried to change her will to her benefit.<\/p>\n<p>The con artist, as she was called by a British newspaper, exploited her relationship with the vulnerable patient while working as a consultant psychiatrist for a dementia service in West Cumbria.<\/p>\n<p>Alemi even applied for power of attorney in the patient\u2019s name to make&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/11\/19\/580532\/Britain-NHS-loose-regulations-fake-doctor\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0fake doctor has managed to practice in the country for more than two decades without officials in the National Health Service (NHS) noticing it, according\u00a0to\u00a0British media reports. Reports\u00a0on Monday said that Zholia Alemi had made checks on thousands of patients since 1995 when she first registered in the UK as a psychiatrist. But officials jailed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-385748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}