TikTok ‘doctor’ revealed as total fraud who gave people health advice on cancer, HIV while donning scrubs https://nypost.com/2023/10/13/fake-doctor-dalya-karezi-revealed-as-total-fraud-who-gave-people-health-advice-on-cancer-hiv/#:~:text=An%20Australian%20woman%20who%20portrayed%20herself%20as%20a,profession%20the%20whole%20time%2C%20according%20to%20The%20Sun. An Australian woman who portrayed herself as a doctor and gave people all sorts of health advice over TikTok and Instagram revealed she was faking her profession the whole time, according to The Sun. Dalya Karezi plead guilty Wednesday and was sentenced to a two-year community corrections order at Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court, Yahoo reported. She was also ordered to pay an $8,400 fine.
The thing that scares me is the scope, here. This woman had 243,000 followers. ONE PERSON! How many real doctors, practising at on-ground clinics etc. would it take, to advise 243,000 people? ONE fake using the reach of Tik-Tok or other channels is almost UNBELIEVABLY dangerous! Like Pokemon - "gotta catch 'em ALL." As (professionally qualified) TV psychologist "Dr. Phil" McGraw is fond of saying --- Let's DO this!
My guess is - someone in her own community - someone Kurdish or Iraqi by origin. Ms. Karezi was originally from Iraq - landing in Australia at age 8. Apparently she became well-known in the local Iraqi and Kurdish communities as a "women's health specialist," something she most decidedly was not. I hate people like this. I'd like to see a full investigation into the possibility her actions and advice caused so much as ONE death. If there is such a likelihood, and with 243,000 followers, I think there might well be -- I'd be OK if she were charged with murder. That'd wipe the smile off her face. Seen her pic? Her fraud started in her own community and I'm guessing it was first exposed there. People who victimize their own are particularly despicable - totally without conscience, regardless of what they say when caught.
According to another article, Karezi used her social media popularity as a supposed "doctor" to make money endorsing medical-related products. That compounds the felony here, as I see it. Always money.... always. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/woman-convicted-after-pretending-to-be-a-doctor-on-tiktok-instagram-20231011-p5ebhv.html BTW - "smh" in the link stands for "Sydney Morning Herald," not "shake my head," though it's that too, from my POV.
I doubt if we'll ever know exactly who turned this woman in. Nowhere I know of, do authorities usually publish the names of informants. If they did, disappearances can happen and / or bodies can surface. I thank that informant in absentia. A brave person who did a good - and somewhat risky - thing.
Mikhail "Doctor Mike" Varshavski DO, a qualified family doctor, has over 11 million subscribers on YouTube. It doesn't hurt that he was named the Hottest Doctor by People Magazine.
I SAID: Dr. Mike has subscribers on his YouTube channel. I'm (quite obviously, I think) talking about doctors working from conventional medical offices, as most do. Not YouTube stars. No disrespect to Dr. Varshavski. That's a cool achievement. Kudos and props to him.
Interesting that after all this time, nobody has questioned her background. In modern times, most frauds are a timebomb in waiting. There's satisfaction from having the truth exposed. That goes for military/veteran stolen valor offenders also. Shoutout to This Ain't Hell and Military Phonies websites.
Dr. Idz? Hope he's not related to Dr. Oz! THAT guy! OML! NIH Article here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6167233/
