• From a fertility doctor who was secretly impregnating his patients to a doctor who
removed his own appendix without anaesthetics, we count nine doctors you won’t believe
are real!
9 – Dr Cecil Jacobson, • Over the years fertility doctor Cecil
Jacobson helped hundreds of couples realise their dream of falling pregnant.
Unfortunately he was very deceptive about how he did this.
You see, his patients believed they were falling pregnant using sperm supplied by screened
donors, but Dr Jacobson was actually impregnating them with his own sperm.
• To cover this up he falsified pregnancies and lied to patients about how far along they
were.
An investigation determined that there was no sperm donor program, and that Jacobson
had personally fathered as many as seventy-five children.
• He was convicted in 1992 and had his medical licence revoked.
Jacobson had to pay $117,000 in fines and serve five years in prison.
But this was a very lenient sentence, as he could’ve gotten a 280-year sentence and
a $500,000 fine.
His story became the basis for the TV movie ‘The Babymaker’.
8 – Dr Mladen Antolic, • As a pain management physician, Dr Mladen
Antolic had the authority to write prescriptions for cocaine, morphine, oxycodone and methamphetamines.
But instead of using these prescriptions to help patients he decided he would use them
to blackmail patients for sex and money.
• First, he falsely prescribed addictive drugs to his female patients.
When they got hooked, he invited them to lavish parties and forced them to give him sexual
favours in exchange for a drug hit.
• This went on for years until one patient exposed him with an anonymous letter to the
DEA.
He was arrested in 2010 and had his medical licence suspended.
Although he faced 156 years jail time for his crimes, he only served ten years in prison
– because apparently doctors are untouchable?
7 – Dr Linda Burfield Hazzard, • Linda Burfrield Hazzard never went to
medical school.
But she didn’t let a pesky little detail like that stop her from illegally treating
patients.
She was even granted a medical licence in the early 1900s because of a weird loophole
in Washington law.
• As you can imagine, a licence and no training was a recipe for disaster – especially when
Linda’s medical philosophy was ‘no need to run tests; fasting cures all ailments’.
Whenever patients came in Linda would prescribe strict diets of tomato and asparagus broth.
It didn’t matter if they had a fever or a gunshot wound, Linda genuinely believed
that fasting would heal any illness.
• Unfortunately most of Linda’s patients ended up starving to death under this so-called
‘treatment plan’.
She effectively killed more forty patients this way without facing any charges.
Locals came to nickname her treatment facility ‘Starvation Heights’ because all of the
patients admitted were nothing but skin and bones.
She was finally arrested in 1911 and even tried to have her charges dismissed as sexism.
6 – Dr Lidia Soto, • In 2011, Mexican street vendor Karla Flores
was taking a stroll in the street when a live grenade struck her in the face and became
lodged there.
Karla was rushed to the Mexican Culiacan General Hospital but, since there was a real risk
of the grenade exploding, no one wanted to treat her.
• When the news of Karla’s predicament reached Dr Lidia Soto she bravely volunteered
to perform the grenade removal surgery.
Because a detonation would kill anyone in a 32-foot radius the operation had to be performed
outside in a field.
Bomb defusal experts from the Mexican army were on site to give Lidia instructions.
• After hours of steady hands and crossed fingers, Lidia successfully removed the grenade,
saving Karla from certain death.
Definitely not your typical day at the office.
5 – Dr J. Peter Zagarra, • In 2013 a female patient told her surgeon,
Dr J. Peter Zegarra, that she was worried about her upcoming upper-gastrointestinal
endoscopy.
She said she was afraid her sensitive gag reflex might complicate the procedure and
received some rather…
unconventional medical advice.
• Without missing a beat, Dr Zegarra told her to “give her husband a blowjob at least
twice a week” to address the issue.
The woman had to ask Dr Zegarra to repeat himself because she was sure she’d stumbled
onto the set of a bad medical-themed porno by mistake.
• In the end, Dr Zegarra was reprimanded by the California Medical Board and ordered
to wash his mouth out with soap.
4 – Dr Wlodzimierz Szepielow, • In 2007 veteran neurosurgeon Dr Wlodzimierz
Szepielow took the art of medical negligence to new heights.
It began when one of his patients died during what should have been a routine surgical procedure.
Szepielow was suspended from practicing medicine and ordered to take a medical knowledge test
– y’know, to prove he hadn’t gotten his licence from a cereal box.
• Szepielow failed the test spectacularly, scoring a record low 17.5 percent and breaking
the air pipe of a plastic CPR dummy.
Instead of conceding that he was a danger to his patients, Szeipielow tried to fight
his suspension and demanded he have his license back.
He claimed he’d only failed because the test was ‘too stressful’ – apparently
forgetting that stress management is kind of part of the whole being a brain surgeon
package.
It’s why they make the big bucks.
• After Szepielow unsuccessfully tried suing the assessment panel for dissing his surgeon
skills, he attempted to worm his way into a job training other doctors – I guess so
he could teach the next generation all about medical incompetence.
No one is quite prepared to rule out that he may have botched his own brain surgery.
3 – Dr Evan O’Neill Kane, • Superstar surgeon Dr Evan O’Neill Kane
is famous for performing complex surgeries… on himself!
And no, he didn’t just perform them out of necessity, like that guy from 127 Hours.
He carefully planned out these surgeries and performed them on purpose.
• His interest in self-surgery started out innocently enough.
He first amputated his own finger to stave off an infection.
This isn’t that strange – except he did this to himself even though he was in a fully
staffed hospital.
Not long after, Chuck Norris – I mean Dr Kane! – surgically removed his own appendix
using nothing but local anaesthesia.
He did this without any assistance just to prove that appendectomies could be done by
just using local numbing.
• Finally, at seventy years old, Dr Kane performed a risky hernia operation on himself
in under two hours!
He even did the whole thing while chatting and laughing along with a group of nurses!
Nothing could keep this good doctor down.
2 – Dr Joseph Michael Swango, • Dr Joseph Michael Swango was a highly
respected academic whose hobbies included music, reading and murdering patients and
co-workers.
• His taste for murder began when he was an intern at Ohio State University Medical
Centre.
Nurses there noticed that his perfectly healthy patients had the strange habit of mysteriously
dropping dead.
One even caught Swango injecting something into a patient, but their accusation was dismissed
as ‘paranoid’.
• In 1985, Dr Swango was finally caught poisoning his co-workers.
He served five years in prison, but when he got out he went straight back to practicing
medicine using a fake name and some forged documents.
Swango avoided the FBI for years and fled to Saudi Arabia, where he was finally caught
and extradited to the US.
The judge charged him with fraud, practicing medicine without a license, and poisoning
as many as sixty people.
He’s now enjoying three life sentences in a Colorado prison.
1 – Dr Charles Momah, • Creepy Dr Charles Momah was so passionate
about examining women’s privates that he made it his career.
Unfortunately, while most male gynaecologists are professionals, the deeply disturbed Dr
Momah believed he had a licence to do whatever he wanted to his patients.
• Over the years, Dr Momah was accused of sexually harassing, molesting and raping up
to a hundred of his patients.
He was even accused of bringing his twin brother into his practice to join in on the depraved
acts.
• After being raped and subjected to several unnecessary surgeries, one patient filed a
police report against Dr Momah.
At first no one believed her, but when more and more victims started coming forward with
similar stories the police were forced to take their claims seriously.
After a huge investigation, Dr Momah was sentenced to twenty years in prison.
His brother, on the hand, was not charged due to lack of evidence.
And for todays question we wanna know “What's the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened
to you on a date?”
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