This is one of the hardest to understand stories I've come across in some time. Rick Van Thiel was producing porn in East Las Vegas until he went to prison on a battery charge in 2007. His equipment was stolen while he was locked up so he decided to go into the medical field,and just like that he opens up a practice,no license,no medical degree. He told an interviewer he had learned about medicine watching You Tube videos and of course knew anatomy for his years in the porn business. Apparently he was getting patients from an ad on Craig's list along with black market steroids and other drugs that were found in the trailer that served as his office. He is accused of causing the deaths of three people and sexually assaulting a woman who came in for an abortion. Of course he is in jail now awaiting trial on those and other charges,but what the hell were those people who went to him thinking? It is speculated that they couldn't afford mainstream medical care,but wouldn't they have been better off without his care,and never mind that he was obviously charging them something for his "services". I don't know,this one leaves me scratching my head.
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