>>352892these are stories the medical director at a small cardiovascular center in northern germany told me when i was a medical student doing a subinternship there
they had a colleague called doctor schmidt, an anesthetist, who did a bunch of questionable things. he called in sick multiple times because his mother was ill and he was taking care of her. he always reached the same guy, doctor holm, who pieced together that something was probably amiss. anyway, one time he called in, say that his mother has died. in germany, you get two days of compassionate leave when a parent dies and he took two two days off, obviously. a few weeks later, his mother called the hospital, asking if everything was alright with doctor schmidt, she said he hadn't called her for a while and she was worried. he did some other things too.
the hospital had a pretty nice cafeteria and doctor schmidt always ate there, but always on credit. and he amassed a bill of a few hundred euros, which became embarrassing for the department, to the point that the chief of anaesthesia paid his outstanding bill out of his own pocket.
there was also the question whether doctor schmidt was actually a licensed medical doctor, because he never actually presented his medical license and when asked about it, he always said that he had recently moved and had not unpacked yet.
anyway, he got fired after his mother rose from the dead
