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I HAVE TO BE SPECIAL!!! PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEE!!!

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[-] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 104 points 1 year ago
[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

How do you know it's plague, are you a doctor?

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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 77 points 1 year ago

The crime imho is not cosplaying as a doctor on Instagram but applying for medical jobs with a fake resume with fake degrees

I see nothing wrong on the screenshots of the now deleted Instagram profile, she's doing paid modeling "this nail polish is so pretty", "this scrub is so comfy" or saying the usual bullshit "remember to eat 2 fruit a day" but nowhere where she's claiming to be a doctor or giving dangerous medical advice. Less dangerous than "doctor" Oz in the States.

if you get a job as a project manager in an hospital just because you knew that they didn't check and lied to have 3 medical degrees, that's a worse problem

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago

the Facebook post has definitely got some misleading wording, though. "Trust me I know many physicians delay self care when we have 100 items on our plate", for example, sounds like she's trying to imply that she's one of the physicians without explicitly saying it.

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[-] StorminNorman@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Doctor Oz is actually a doctor though, despite everything. Used to be one of the most respected cardiothoracic surgeons in the world. Then his tv show happened...

[-] cubism_pitta@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

While that is different... That is much more frightening to consider.

[-] StorminNorman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It kinda is. The dude could probably take out your lungs and heart with his eyes closed. But he got corrupted.

[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 19 points 1 year ago

The dude could probably take out your lungs and heart with his eyes closed.

To be fair, so could I.

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[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 61 points 1 year ago

From one Australian woman to another, she should have used that energy and tried acting instead.

Everybody plays a character of the person they want to present to the world on social media, so there needs to be more awareness that even if you can see their faces and hear their voices, you still can't blindly trust people to be who they claimed to be online, and you should always exercise a healthy dose of skepticism on what you read or watched.

Trust me, after all, why would Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie ever lie to you?

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

You were still great in that thing. I think you were a doctor. I dunno.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I'm not a doctor, I just played a clown doctor on TV.

Don't go takin' medical advice from me on anythin' now.

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[-] Sallp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Messing with tech nerds IS really funny.

(I still 💖 you guys though)

[-] solivine@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

You can't even trust those are the actual people you see with deepfakes becoming more popular.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 year ago

There are a ton of people pretending to be doctors on Tik Tok. Anybody wearing scrubs and a stethoscope at home is LARPing.

[-] LavaPlanet@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I always wonder when scrubs go on / get swapped out for normal atire.

[-] Case@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd actually believe it if they looked like they had a long shift, and a lot of hospital shifts are already 12 hours, at least in my experience supporting various medical systems (as in groups of hospitals, clinics, etc).

Then they can have their scrubs on for a short little "check in" with viewers. Most people who wear scrubs sweat their asses off all day, and most likely have at least one strangers bodily fluid on them. They change out of it.

My wife, for example once came home, stripped in the laundry room and tossed it in the wash, then went to shower. She wouldn't speak of what happened. Her position is also unlikely to deal with bodily fluids, but there we were. She also carried a pair of scrubs in her car trunk in case she needed to change mid shift.

Shit, sometimes quite literally, happens in hospitals and no one is immune.

[-] OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

My sister is the same, she’s an ER nurse in a high traffic area and almost always strips in the garage and throw’s everything in a hot wash. Based on her stories, I’d be burning a few of the scrubs lol.

[-] Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 year ago

"Defence barrister Erasmus Lovell-Jones said his client had an underlying psychological fragility which made it difficult for her to say no in social situations.

He said Karezi – who was studying a bachelor’s degree in health science – met a person who believed she was studying medicine, and when she did not correct them it spawned a misunderstanding that opened doors for her."

What kind of horse shit defense is that? Someone should check if this defense attorney has underlying phycological fragility themself.

[-] Fisk400@feddit.nu 29 points 1 year ago

His job is to defend her to the best of his ability. If there is no good defense for what she did then he is obligated to make a bad one as long as that defense doesn't involve direct lies.

[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Sounds more like she saw a golden opportunity for her fraudster mindset.

[-] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I have a psychological fragility that makes it hard for me to not steal spirits from the liquor store and I demand justice.

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Oof. She is a student of health science. I wonder if her school will kick her out, because she didn't just lie a few times, she went 80 posts deep and even took sponsorship deals during the pandemic.

[-] Kinglink@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Ooof. I wonder if she was going to try to be a doctor.... and I wonder how ethics boards and such will view actions like these. Probably just blew up her entire career with some stupidity.

[-] jcit878@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

classic case of turning one lie into a full blown personality you can't find an easy way out of

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[-] RoseRose56@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

She even applied for jobs, what is wrong with these people? It's not only tik tok, but didn't any family member saw her? And stop her? They should also start asking for certification copies.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More than ask for certification copies, which can be easily faked, setup a way for hospitals to check degrees on an online database. We're not in the 1960s anymore

[-] livus@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

@Moonrise2473 i

I thought there was? The universities here have online databases where you type in the person's name and it tells you their degrees from that university.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Isn't there? My university has a simple site to check if diploma/degree numbers are real, and I got mine a pretty long time ago.

[-] Kinglink@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

You don't need someone to tell you don't pretend to be a doctor. Maybe you do need to tell people not to be a piece of shit, but let me help.

Stop being pieces of shit.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

The internet is too much for humans. It's our downfall accelerated. We were already probably doomed. This cranked it up to certainty.

[-] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

If it’s any consolation we only need a few individuals making progress for humanity. We have always had a large percentage of people that don’t add value and we are still making progress

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

There goes my Halloween costume.

[-] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

What about free speech? /s

[-] atetulo@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you're taking doctor advice on social media, you're the problem.

Ironically, measures like this just serve to reinforce people's trust in social media as a legitimate source of information.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, both sides are. It's not okay to pretend to be a doctor and masquerade paid product promotion as medical advise.

But it's also inherently not okay to look at TikTok (or something comparable) for medical advise, that's just obvious bullshit. And any even remotely reasonable person should intuitively know that.

[-] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You see you went wrong when you assumed there aren’t lots of unreasonable people who don’t intuitively know that

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I explicitly mention that in the last sentence.

[-] ZenkorSoraz@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Australia is a hoax though most Australia co actors who play Australian doctors have real medical skills and training.

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