A 18-year-old boy is set to stand trial for impersinating a doctor and treating patients for four days.
Cesar Colon
It sounds like a bizarre episode of the 90s comedy-drama “Doogie Howser, M.D.” But this is reality. And this teen wasn’t a board-certified surgeon, but, according to police, merely someone who, through a clerical error, acquired a medical badge and spent several days posing as a doctor’s assistant and treating patients.
Opening statements in the trial of 18 year-old Matthew Scheidt is scheduled to start Tuesday in a Florida courtroom.
Scheidt faces two counts of impersonating a physician’s assistant and four counts of practicing medicine without a license for the days he spent at Osceola Regional Medical Center in August 2011.
He was 17 at the time.
