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In 2024, the Haryana Medical Council cancelled the registration of five doctors after they were caught having used forged documents to gain registration.
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NEW DELHI – India’s medical fraternity has been rocked by many scandals over the years, but an especially shocking one emerged recently from a hospital in Damoh, in Central India’s Madhya Pradesh state.
A certain Narendra Vikramaditya Yadav took on a fake identity as a cardiologist and pretended to be “Dr N. John Camm”, a name very similar to that of an actual British cardiologist: Professor John Camm.
