Convinced that he had a serious illness, in order to continuously repeat free examinations and medical visits, he would pretend to be sick, being admitted to various Italian hospitals, providing false personal details. This is the accusation against a 55-year-old hypochondriac, originally from Veneto, who was reported for impersonation in Catania. The investigations were launched after his last hospitalization, at the Caltagirone hospital, where he managed, pretending to have non-existent symptoms, to be admitted to the Neurology department with an alias. But he was recognized by a doctor, who also works in another facility, to whose emergency room the 55-year-old had presented himself in October 2023, managing to be hospitalized there as well. Seeing himself discovered, the man fled. Tracked down and charged, he faces a year in prison.
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