Part One: The Fake Doctors Who Gave Everyone Alzheimer's | BEHIND THE BASTARDS 

We need a PO box address to send little plastic award cups to Robert.

The only award I need is the Banking Excellence Award I stole from a Community Service Job Site while serving my community after my shoplifting conviction.

When the little sociopath masquerading as a doctor referred the cops to his parents to vouch for him after he got caught, it reminded me of the Sam Bankman-Fried story.

I stood and cheered when Robert said “Malachi Love-Robinson” This is a great day for podcasting.

Speaking of fake doctors. In my town there is a chiropractor that offers services for your dog. Quack doctor and quack veterinarian in one.

Speaking as someone who has spent most of their life dealing with the medical system, I think I can see the radiologist's thought process here. A throwaway line in your records like "anxious" or "noncompliant" can follow you around for years, making it impossible to get proper treatment or diagnosis, even if it later turns out the person who said it was wrong and bad at their job. I can't imagine the damage it would do to a 21yr old girl's life to have an Alzheimer's diagnosis in her records, even if it did turn out (years later) to be fraudulent. Frankly, most doctors aren't going to be looking that closely.

Even as a regular listener of this show, I don't often think "Wow, now there's a person who should be thrown off the Sears Tower", and yet here we are.

Another guy to cover might be James Grigson, the Texas psychiatrist who testified at over a hundred death-penalty trials that the defendant was a sociopath who would absolutely do it again if allowed out, thus obtaining the death penalty. The American Psychiatric Association expelled him in 1995.

"they probably haven't seen house" actually house is having a great resurgence among the zoomers. we're really into house/wilson yaoi rn

I'm just here to scream in the void.

I really like these "potpourri" episodes. It can be tough to keep facts straight after a couple episodes of someone's life, but with episodes like this, if I zone out for a second, I can still understand what's going on.

I would love to hear more episodes with Dr. Kaveh, hearing a genuinely good doctor groan and scream in emotional pain at the bastards of the world really makes my day. Also he's legitimately funny and I hope he's doing good in life!

NOT DOCTOR FUCKING LOVE, HE LITERALLY CAN'T BE STOPPED. I screamed when you said his name. shout out to ricky and eliott

i dont have insider knowledge on how medical records work but i think they would destroy them to not have documentation of a diagnosis like that floating around. a diagnosis of alzheimers would affect medical/car/life insurance and could possibly be used to gain control over someone through a conservatorship or similar, many other things. a diagnosis of alzheimers can be whipped out to claim someone is mentally incompetent and cant make their own decisions.

Gotta love the YT algorithm. I listened to this podcast and 5 minutes later I got an ad peddling some quack cure for memory loss. What happened to Google's "don't be evil" pledge?

If you want bloodsport with low risk of brain injury may I recommend shin kicking?

“Until he went into the garage and shot himself” I dunno if I’ve heard a more heartbreaking story dude

20 years ago, Mom was diagnosed with dementia. They gave us the information, as near as I (who got it second hand) can tell, as “most likely Alzheimer’s if so we predict…”. But there’s many things that cause similar symptoms. Mom had temporarily lost blood flow from a cause that was halted, as current guess. Vascular dementia varies wildly but Mom knows a handful of core facts about her handful of core people. If I start with “your cousin/aunt/nephew X” she knows they exist and are loved and examines the picture. My cousin’s teenagers aren’t on her map. She knows I sew, asks if I made my garment. Asks what every t-shirt means each time (“(dad) and (me) love science fiction for some reason” is on the core list so “you would never have followed this show” is an acceptable answer. One does buy carefully when one will explain the joke/cause/etc every. Time.). Knows Auntie travels, asks her if she’s been where HGTV is showing. Can’t give her most basic health history including why she’s a paraplegic or that she has an ostomy bag and pacemaker. EMTs have let me ride along (in front) because of this. We gave her some coconut oil in food since maybe it had the ketones and maybe some damaged brain cells could burn that better than sugars, a blind guess on why that lady’s husband supposedly yada yada. Dad’s a biochemist and it was “no data, but no evidence of harm”. Definitely not the reason she’s not worse. That would be the pacemaker Anyway I was in the dementia community then and it didn’t work like thay

The little groan reaction at 32:50 had me rolling

Listened to this and got to the part where Robert said people wouldn't get bit by spiders and was thinking about bee venom therapy. So yeah people probably would get bitten by spiders if the right conman told them to.

You wouldn't be able to call yourself an award-winning journalist, but you could probably claim to be "prestigious" because there's no legal definition for that

"Hello. I'm Dr. Stupid. I'm going to take out your liver bones." - Ralph Wiggum

i’m a zoomer and i LOVE house md. my friends all at least know of it, i grew up with it. started watching it at like 6? i don’t think this negatively impacted me, not at all.

I've been following the Dr. Love story for such a long time, I was there for every twist and turn.

Internet Today hall of famer “Dr”. Malachi Love Robinson

When my dad was going through cancer treatments, his doctor would make house calls. It ment alot to our whole family.

House? Grey's Anatomy? Pah! Everyone knows that the best place to get your cultural concepts of medicine is Scrubs

Podcast trivia time: we can thank the Québec language laws for giving us the French words for walkman (baladeur) and by extension, podcast (baladodiffusion or just 'balado' for short.) Baladeur comes from the verb "balader" which means "to stroll." (Diffusion is the French word for 'broadcast.') These are not words that exist in France or other parts of Europe that speak French. They are entirely invented by the Québec government to minimize the penetrance of English words ("anglicismes") in to Québecois French.

I got "fired" by my dentist this year; apparently my teeth are too "complex" for them?

Has BTB ever done an episode on Dr. Diane Humenansky,? Notorious crank psychiatrist whose story broke sometime in the early-to-mid-90s I think. Not a case that fits the theme Robert was building to here but there is a nice tie-in to Satanic Panic.

Maybe the radiologist destroyed the records so his daughter wouldn't have that diagnosis on her record forever.

"Paging Doctor Love? Is Doctor Love in the house?" That's an actual scene in a Jeff Goldblum film. "Earth Girls Are Easy" with Gena Davis. Classic late 80s comedy. He's an alien who at one point impersonates a Doctor. And you guessed it - he gives his name as "Love".

Y'all i've been listening through iHeart radio for years, i never knew you had a youtube channel

Obviously all medical scams are awful, but I think it's especially heinous to prey on people with memory issues. I only experience comparatively light ones and it still has impacted my ability to trust myself and others, I can't imagine what it must be like to deal with that AND the fact that a medical professional abused my trust in this way.

As an Internet Today fan I cheered when they brought up Malachi Love Robinson

i think the radiologist just badly phrased removing the bs diagnosis from his daughter's records

As someone currently living in the state of Oklahoma, he's not wrong 😬

So, if you're a grifter/con artist, you hit every mark for every single penny that you can get. Why add more charges to get less money. Besides, the more they lose, the more likely they are to just eat it and not admit to being scammed. A good con artist would take several million from a multi-millionaire, maybe two, and then head to wherever. The last thing you want is a string of forty fifty people who you scammed for a thousand dollars each. That's like ten thousand years in jail. Scam, one person out of fifty thousand yeah, that's jail time, but good behavior nonviolent offender... I'm only saying this because if you are worried about being grifted, the person will seem like a friend. Not like someone on the street trying to trade fifty bucks for a winning lottery ticket.

Destroying those medical records for that guys daughter is presumably for fear of insurance premiums being raised based on the diagnosis or the company penalizing her for not disclosing the diagnosis. But still, you can just have documentation from a real doctor saying the diagnosis was BS.

new episode, hell yeah

HHPC is what my local community college calls their gym. Human Health Performance Center

Robert Evans, by the power vested in me by Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I hereby award you the Spider Church Award For Operational Excellence In Podcasting

OH Shit, i'm so used to catching these months or years after the fact. I WANT THE REEEEEEST.

Wow, amazing to see one of ETC news/Internet Today guys rogue gallery member get an episode.

Leftist is bestist

8:57 Bro! This kid was all over the major meme sites back when the news broke. He later got popped for financially abusing his relatives for cars and shit

This is the first time I've heard of turmeric for the liver. I've only ever heard about it for joint inflammation.

if you’re misdiagnosed and its put in your medical record, can’t some insurance company make you pay higher rates because you’re “officially sick” down the line?

1:00:17 this is obviously to protect her from being denied healthcare coverage and life insurance. Since this was 2013 Obamacare (which got rid of the rule where insurance companies could drop your coverage under anything they could claim to be a known preexisting condition) has only just taken effect, the supreme Court hadn't yet ruled if it was legal plus every Republican was promising to k ill it as soon as possible so the doctor was trying to protect his daughter from the insurance companies. My uncle is a lawyer and pre Obamacare he used to sue insurance companies to make them cover really expensive treatments for people who were like in the top 20% of earners and he saw this very often with the families of doctors. It was the only thing of marginal value that Obama ever did, sadly.

I've won a ton of awards that other people received, lol

Just make Paintball an olympic sport

Boy howdy!

Would it be wrong to start a rumor claiming that spider venom can cure erectile dysfunction? I don't want to make any money or get famous or anything, I just think it'll be funny to read stories about people putting spiders on their junk.

WOW…he looked like he was in middle school

I'd like to say there is at least one positive thing that comes OUT of Galveston; scuba-diving trips into the Caribbean. In 1996, my father and I went for a 3-day trip on a live-aboard (smallish size ship, crew of 4) with about a dozen other scuba-divers. We saw a variety of underwater critters including sharks, several large barracuda, and one giant manta ray. That being said, every moment on shore was like being in a third-world country, so...yay ocean?

Hello friends!

How dare you fail to mention the best thing from New Jersey, Wawa

So, hearing the first story. Made me think "when did "catch me if you can" come out? 2002 btw if anyone else is wondering

28:00 Logically, I know this isn't what it means, but... To me, "consulting but not examining" patients means you have to wear a blindfold.

Zoomers definitely know what House is lol.

I only have one thing to point out: The reason they probably Destroyed the Medical Records (From the misdiagnosis) were probably so they *_wouldn't make it into a legitimate medical file on her_* , because it's *_almost fucking impossible_* to get that out once it is in - it might be slightly easier now that they're mostly Electronic and Centralized, but definitely not back then. Also: *_Laughs out loud at the idea that doctors don't take offense when you ask for a second opinion_*

Long time listener of your podcast. It's a thing when I walk through my city.The times I had to stop dead in my tracks because this this utter evil person, when *spoilers* a person committed suicide because of this greed, and that it seems really easy to be this type of scammer. I will listen to part 2, but after a few drinks, cause man, creating victims out of whole cloth like that just to make a buck... there is a running theme to your show, and these people are the worst of the worst.

A shame no one can remember their names. It was the perfect crime.

Would destroying medical records from a very fraudulent doctor be useful towards future visits to medical professionals being untainted by said fraudulent data?

"Why would the radiologist had his daughter's medical records destroyed and recommended Smith do the same?" Spoken like people who have never had a single diagnosis - whether disproven or not - used against them in later medical settings. ("I see here you have anxiety/bipolar/schizophrenia/adhd/depression, so it's probably just psychosomatic.")

Actually, I have to say that if my accountant was a member of the American Association of Drugless Practitioners, I'd feel pretty good about that. I'm not a big drug guy myself, but it does seem like most drugs don't really make you better at arithmetic, y'know?

#714

Now this is clickbate!!!!!!!!!!

Kaveh, Kaiser Permanente, who you work defraud Medicare and Medicaid on a daily basis. So hold your selective outrage for someone else defrauding Medicare and Medicaid.

THIRD

malachi love robinson has a linked in page. it's as convincing as any linked in page i ever saw