If you are interested in a real imposter who succeeded multiple times in working as a physician without any training at all and who was nearly made a professor,

If you are interested in a real imposter who succeeded multiple times in working as a physician without any training at all and who was nearly made a professor, look at Gert Postel [0]. If you understand German, there is also a great documentary about him on YouTube [1]. A former postal employee, he named himself "Dr. med. Dr. phil. Clemens Bartholdy" and first worked as a public health officer in Flensburg. > When asked about his dissertation's subject, he reportedly replied "On pseudologia phantastica [with regard to] the example of the character Felix Krull from the homonymous novel by Thomas Mann and cognitively induced distortions in stereotypical judgment". Later, he worked as a surgeon major in the German armed forced, and several years as a senior physician in a psychiatric hospital, also giving lectures. > By chance, a co-worker recognised him on July 10, 1997, forcing him to go into hiding. At that time, an appointment was already set for an interview with Hans Geisler, then Saxony's Minister of State for social affairs, health and family, on the occasion of Postel's appointment to a professorship and to the position of chief of medicine at Saxony's hospital for psychiatry and neurology at Arnsdorf near Dresden. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Postel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Postel [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2JqKLpEa4A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2JqKLpEa4A