This teen got away with pretending to be an OB-GYN at a hospital for weeks

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Dress for the job you want, not the job you have, right?

One Florida teenager may have had that adage in mind when he and posed as an OB-GYN at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach — and got away with it for a month before being detected.

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According to Fox 13, security guards had seen the teen around the hospital but thought he worked there. The teen's mother told Fox 13 that he "had not been taking his medication," and police and the hospital decided not to charge him.

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Meghan DeMaria is a staff writer at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked for USA Today and Marie Claire.