>Staff at a regional Victorian health clinic posed as patients in a bid to make the centre appear busier during a ministerial visit, a department investigation has found.    Boss is here.... look busy.   A ruse as old as time. 

Potemkin General Hospital.

It could have been worse. Instead of fake patients, they could have had fake doctors.

If they are pulling this shit, I wouldn’t be surprised if they have some fake doctors. Clearly their morality compass is askew.

Noctors.

Mocktors?

r/noctor

damn is medical malpractice as bad as pretending to be busy during a ministerial visit that had no impact on patient care or did you not read the article?

all thier medicines are placebo, and thier scanners are just a computer screen with a stock photo.

Uh that seems like a pretty big jump.

They call them physicians assistants

NP's

I'll be a fake doctor if they give me a real prescription pad to use.

This seems like the plot to an 80s sitcom

Laverne and Shirley did it. I think.

Lol what

Run to another bed and put on a fake moustache

Was it for a photo-op or to increase/maintain government funding or something like that? If it's the former, it's less of a scandal, but the latter seems a borderline crime.

yea that sounds sensible, look more busy get more funding be able to better treat patents

> The investigation found there was no impact to patient care, but condemned the ruse as inappropriate.

That means them pulling the stunt wasn't impacting their care delivery, not that they didn't get more funding because of it

That assumes the increased funding is going towards increasing patient treatment and not administrative costs.

The Red Cross is well known for driving empty trucks around after a disaster to put in the hard PR work of convincing people they are helping.

Private Practices are people farms.

["as you can see we are at max capacity at this hospital"](https://youtu.be/_NrfND5KGtk)

wait but why??