--- title: Florida Teen Impersonates Doctor for a Whole Month description: A teenager in Florida managed to fool an entire medical center into thinking he was a doctor for a whole month before he was found out canonical: https://time.com/3673161/florida-teen-impersonates-doctor/ author: Helen Regan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-19T03:55:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:02.644Z og:title: Florida Teen Impersonates Doctor for a Month og:description: "These young doctors look younger every year," one physician thought. og:url: https://time.com/3673161/florida-teen-impersonates-doctor/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Florida Teen Impersonates Doctor for a Month twitter:description: "These young doctors look younger every year," one physician thought. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # A Florida Teen Impersonated a Doctor for a Whole Month by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Jan 19, 2015 3:55 AM UTC by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Jan 19, 2015 3:55 AM UTC A teenager in Florida managed to fool an entire medical center into thinking he was a [doctor](http://www.kctv5.com/story/27878179/teen-plays-doctor-at-hospital-for-a-month-before-hes-caught) for a whole month before he was found out. The teen wore a white coat that read “Anesthesiology” on the back as he walked through the corridors of St. Mary’s Medical Center in Palm Beach, KCTV 5 News reports. “He presented himself with a patient of our practice and introduced himself as Dr. Robinson,” Dr. Sebastian Kent said. “The first thing I thought was, ‘I am really getting old because these young doctors look younger every year.'” The teen was discovered after being caught in an examination room with a patient while wearing a mask and a stethoscope. His mother told police he had an undisclosed illness and had not been taking his medication. Both police and the hospital decided not file charges. \[[_KCTV 5 News_](http://www.kctv5.com/story/27878179/teen-plays-doctor-at-hospital-for-a-month-before-hes-caught)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3673161/florida-teen-impersonates-doctor/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3673161/florida-teen-impersonates-doctor/"},"headline":"A Florida Teen Impersonated a Doctor for a Whole Month","datePublished":"2015-01-19T03:55:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:02.644Z","description":"\"I am really getting old because these young doctors look younger every year,\" one physician thought","url":"https://time.com/3673161/florida-teen-impersonates-doctor/","keywords":["Newsfeed","police","Bizarre","Doctor","medication","illness","People"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3673161/florida-teen-impersonates-doctor/","name":"A Florida Teen Impersonated a Doctor for a Whole Month"}}]}] ```