Dr. Fred Reed
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Dr. Fred Reed was accepted into King/Drew’s internal medicine training program in 1998 despite admitting that he had been convicted of Medicaid fraud and, as a result, had lost his medical license in Louisiana, records show.
Twenty days after Reed began his residency, in July 1998, the attorney general of Louisiana informed King/Drew’s affiliated medical school that he had “major problems” that would impair his ability to practice medicine, the school said in court records. He was fired a year later.
In an interview, Reed said that he had been forthcoming with the hospital and medical school but that “they were having problems getting residents in who could pass the licensing exam, and they rushed me in because of that.”
Reed said he had believed that King/Drew, when it accepted him, was giving him a second chance. Then “they just sabotaged me and they made me the fall guy,” he said.
In 2003, the state Court of Appeal rejected his claims of wrongful termination.
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