Physician impersonator caught again
Compliance Monitor, May 26, 2004
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A man currently serving a 12.5-year sentence for impersonating a physician was sentenced May 17 to an additional 10 years in federal prison for posing as a doctor after escaping from prison in 2000.
Gerald Barnes, 70, was sentenced on his fifth conviction of impersonating a doctor.
According to a press release from the U.S. attorney's office in California, Barnes-who was born Gerald Barnbaum-claims to have legally changed his name in the 1970s to Gerald Barnes, the name of a licensed physician who was practicing in Stockton, CA.
After obtaining copies of the physician's school records and medical credentials, Barnes used the documents to gain employment at several medical clinics and offices in Southern California.
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