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Deschutes County man charged with impersonating doctor
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BEND (AP) - Court records show a 22-year-old Deschutes County man is facing multiple counts relating to impersonating a doctor.
It all ended last week when police arrested Scott Hanson of Crooked River Ranch after he showed up dressed as a medical technician and used a scalpel to remove the area around the infected nipple of a Redmond man. He handed the man the part he cut away in a plastic bag.
What an old friend of his who turned him in told police laid bare a long history of a man who apparently lived a fantasy life as the doctor he wasn't.
A police affidavit for a search warrant said Hanson had been using needles that might not have been sterile and that "Doctor Scott," as he liked to be known, made fake prescription labels, dressed as a doctor and provided his "patients" with test results.
His friend said they were classmates at Redmond High School and had gotten back in touch.
He told her he had become a doctor and was doing his residency at Mountain View Hospital in Madras. He showed her a "medical doctor certificate" from the "Oregon Health Sciences University." But Hanson never took a degree there according to an Oregon Health & Science University spokeswoman.
Hanson is charged with assault, identity theft, reckless endangerment and manufacturing or delivering a controlled substance, The Bulletin newspaper of Bend said.
In 2001 he showed up for a high school class picture wearing an EMT uniform and was arrested the next day for criminal impersonation.
In 2007 he was convicted of burglary after stealing dental drills and laughing gas from a Portland dentist's office, according to spokeswoman Mary Wheat of the Portland Police Bureau.
Police said Hanson cleaned some peoples' teeth in a makeshift office and was put on probation until 2010.
It was after that that he began impersonating a doctor.
Last September Hanson gave the woman who eventually reported him a prescription for Laryxol, a fictitious drug, to help her with sleeping problems.
The affidavit said she took 16 of the 20 pills and became groggy, so stopped.
The label kept falling off, so she taped it on, according to the police report. The ink was running and the label was apparently attached with a glue stick.
The search warrant said the drug was amitriptyline, an antidepressant.
Hanson's mother, a registered nurse, said she believed the pills came from Canada.
Hanson didn't charge for the service, but the woman forgave a $20 debt.
She developed a urinary tract infection, which he said he could treat. He went to her Redmond home twice in March, filled a syringe with what he said was penicillin and vitamin B6 and injected her.
He told her she could take the medication in milk. The symptoms came back when she stopped. Fee: $55.
About two weeks later, the affidavit said, she told Hanson her fiance had pain in his back and shoulder. He went to her home with an unpacked syringe and several vials of what was marked as morphine.
The fiance later told police the effects were the same as when he'd previously taken morphine.
Hanson also gave him a pill that was supposedly Valium.
According to the affidavit, Hanson told his friends he got it from Mountain View Hospital after a patient died and before nurses could take the medication.
To complete the treatment, Hanson drew blood and provided a printout of supposed test results. Fee: $25.
The fiance told police he recommended Hanson to friends.
As far as police know, Hanson's last procedure happened in April when he showed up in medical scrubs with a sealed scalpel to treat the infection from a botched nipple piercing.
Fee: $80. He was paid $55.
It all ended last week when police arrested Scott Hanson of Crooked River Ranch after he showed up dressed as a medical technician and used a scalpel to remove the area around the infected nipple of a Redmond man. He handed the man the part he cut away in a plastic bag.
What an old friend of his who turned him in told police laid bare a long history of a man who apparently lived a fantasy life as the doctor he wasn't.
A police affidavit for a search warrant said Hanson had been using needles that might not have been sterile and that "Doctor Scott," as he liked to be known, made fake prescription labels, dressed as a doctor and provided his "patients" with test results.
His friend said they were classmates at Redmond High School and had gotten back in touch.
He told her he had become a doctor and was doing his residency at Mountain View Hospital in Madras. He showed her a "medical doctor certificate" from the "Oregon Health Sciences University." But Hanson never took a degree there according to an Oregon Health & Science University spokeswoman.
Hanson is charged with assault, identity theft, reckless endangerment and manufacturing or delivering a controlled substance, The Bulletin newspaper of Bend said.
In 2001 he showed up for a high school class picture wearing an EMT uniform and was arrested the next day for criminal impersonation.
In 2007 he was convicted of burglary after stealing dental drills and laughing gas from a Portland dentist's office, according to spokeswoman Mary Wheat of the Portland Police Bureau.
Police said Hanson cleaned some peoples' teeth in a makeshift office and was put on probation until 2010.
It was after that that he began impersonating a doctor.
Last September Hanson gave the woman who eventually reported him a prescription for Laryxol, a fictitious drug, to help her with sleeping problems.
The affidavit said she took 16 of the 20 pills and became groggy, so stopped.
The label kept falling off, so she taped it on, according to the police report. The ink was running and the label was apparently attached with a glue stick.
The search warrant said the drug was amitriptyline, an antidepressant.
Hanson's mother, a registered nurse, said she believed the pills came from Canada.
Hanson didn't charge for the service, but the woman forgave a $20 debt.
She developed a urinary tract infection, which he said he could treat. He went to her Redmond home twice in March, filled a syringe with what he said was penicillin and vitamin B6 and injected her.
He told her she could take the medication in milk. The symptoms came back when she stopped. Fee: $55.
About two weeks later, the affidavit said, she told Hanson her fiance had pain in his back and shoulder. He went to her home with an unpacked syringe and several vials of what was marked as morphine.
The fiance later told police the effects were the same as when he'd previously taken morphine.
Hanson also gave him a pill that was supposedly Valium.
According to the affidavit, Hanson told his friends he got it from Mountain View Hospital after a patient died and before nurses could take the medication.
To complete the treatment, Hanson drew blood and provided a printout of supposed test results. Fee: $25.
The fiance told police he recommended Hanson to friends.
As far as police know, Hanson's last procedure happened in April when he showed up in medical scrubs with a sealed scalpel to treat the infection from a botched nipple piercing.
Fee: $80. He was paid $55.
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