A Florida teen who was pretending to be a physician (assistant) is behind bars after he was found guilty.
Matthew Scheidt, 18, was sentenced to a year in jail followed by a year under house arrest and eight years probation, according to WSVN.
He was convicted of two counts of practicing medicine without a license and two counts of impersonating a physician assistant.
Scheidt used a fake badge to work in the Osceola Regional Medical Center. He worked in the emergency room for weeks where he would change bandages, handled IVs, conducted exams, and even performed CPR on a patient.
Scheidt stated he did all of this when he went to a hospital to get his badge for his job as a clerk at a doctor’s office across the street and somebody made an error on his paperwork, according to CNN.
“Their error was putting me in apparently as a physician assistant into their computer,” Scheidt said to investigators. “Let’s even say that I said I was a physician assistant. Let’s even say that I was. Are you that stupid that you are just going to put me in the system as that, without any credentials or any paperwork or nothing?”
This was not his only run-in like this. In January, Scheidt was also arrested in Miami Beach for impersonating a police officer.
