Pretend Safety Professionals

Medicine man fakes 10 years as surgeon

From correspondents in Kuala Lumpur

October 13, 2006 03:45pm
Article from: Agence France-Presse

A MALAYSIAN traditional medicine man posed as a surgeon for a decade, performing major operations on VIPs and foreigners including the removal of tumours and ovarian cysts.

The New Straits Times today reported that the man was exposed by a patient who paid a large sum to have kidney stones removed, but who later discovered the stones were still there.

“He is only a registered traditional medicine practitioner and I am shocked that he was practising modern medicine and performing surgeries. He did not even use anaesthesia,” said health department director-general Ismail Merican.

Yet in Safety we have enormous numbers of people pretending to be safety professionals and it's easy to tell look at their qualifications! Well in most cases they don't have qualifications!