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Fact or Fiction: Woman posed as doctor with only a high school diploma?

Fact or Fiction: Woman posed as doctor with only a high school diploma?
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(KGTV) — A wild story claims a woman who only graduated high school worked at a hospital for a year posing as a doctor.

It's true.

20-year-old Ayşe Özkiraz used a fake diploma to get a job at a state hospital in northwestern Turkey.

She says she never treated patients, even though she wore a white coat and a stethoscope. But on at least one occasion she did suture a patient after an operation.

Doctors finally caught on when she gave contradictory answers about her education and couldn't answer some basic medical questions. She now faces criminal charges.

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