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Diplomas "from the University of Buenos Aires", a national register certificate and two licence numbers, all false: the Monte Castro consulting rooms raided in 2025, and the man who kept seeing patien
Three cases from Buenos Aires in 2025 show the full toolkit of a false doctor, and how little the documents on the wall are worth without a check against the register.
According to Infobae, in June 2025 a 39-year-old man suspected of practising medicine without a licence was arrested after a search of one of his consulting rooms in the Monte Castro neighbourhood. Prosecutors said he had used university titles purportedly issued by the University of Buenos Aires, certificates from the national register of providers kept by the health-services superintendency, and both national and provincial medical licence numbers, none of which were his.
In December 2025, Infobae and Tucumán Digital reported the arrest in the city of a man convicted in 2024 of practising medicine without a degree or licence, who had been sentenced to house arrest and was found to be still treating patients at his home after a malpractice complaint in November. In a third case reported by Noticias Argentinas in August 2025, a man posing as a doctor was arrested for asking patients' families for money for supposed treatments or operations at hospitals in the city and the province.
Argentina's licences are public and provincial, and the national register of health providers is searchable. The Monte Castro case failed on exactly that point: a UBA diploma, a registry certificate and a licence number look authoritative in a frame, and are each a two-minute lookup to disprove.
For students, the Argentine cases are a reminder that a licence number is only evidence when you have checked it with the body that issued it, and that a practitioner, or a school, that resists such a check is telling you something. The same discipline that protects a patient protects an applicant: verify the issuer, not the paper.
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