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A doctor without a diploma? Loophole allows fraud

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published Feb. 21, 2025 16:35

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When introducing simplified procedures for allowing non-EU doctors to work in Poland, politicians assured that full patient safety would be maintained. This is a sham: the inability to verify the documents presented means that a permit to work as a doctor can also be obtained by a person with no education. With a forged, to put it bluntly, diploma.

In recent days, the media revealed information about a doctor who, working in a prescribing office with a conditional PWZ, prescribed powerful painkillers, including fentanyl - without the personal consultation required by law. Upon checking, it turned out that the man did not even have a medical degree. - Today, working as a doctor in Poland can be done by a person who has no medical knowledge, but has a working printer and prints out a college diploma. Today, being a doctor in Poland depends on a statement that someone knows the Polish language, which cannot be verified according to the regulations," said Lukasz Jankowski, president of the Supreme Medical Council, on Friday. As he assessed, at the moment there are about two hundred people in Poland who practice the medical profession, although their knowledge and qualifications as w...

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