article_snippet: Despite being suspended from practicing medicine, the 43-year-old turned up at a London hospital London falsely claiming he was qualified to carry out treatment and attempted to move a patient.
article_snippet: Dr Prashen Pillay even turned up at a medical school in Durham where the deputy head found he addressing a class of students in the lecture theatre, Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service heard.
article_snippet: a tribunal was told Dr Prashen Pillay had qualified from medical school in 2009 and in August the following year began working as a trainee at St Richards Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex.
article_snippet: Despite he public pledge, Pillay went onto be repeatedly hauled into various courts around the UK and rocked up at operations or incidents claiming he was qualified to treat patients.
article_snippet: In one incident Pillay wandered up to St George's Hospital in Tooting, London and relayed a fabricated story to anaesthetic staff that he was undertaking an official 'clinical observership'.
article_snippet: he then falsely told a doctor he issues with the General Medical Council had been resolved and he was about to return to medical practice.
article_snippet: In one incident Pillay went into St George's Hospital in Tooting, London Tooting, London and relayed a fabricated story to staff that he was undertaking an official 'clinical observership'
article_snippet: Pillay then changed into operating clothes, walked into the operating theatre and cannulated a patient - inserting a tube into the vein.
article_snippet: he also maintained the patient's airway and attempted to assist with their transfer, all while he was banned from duty and not even supposed to be in the hospital.
article_snippet: In a separate incident last year, Pillay went to the aid of a woman who had collapsed in Shepherd's Bush, London, but began concocting further tales to the emergency services who arrived at the scene.
article_snippet: Pillay falsely told police Pillay was an anesthetist before  telling a paramedic Pillay was an A&E doctor in Derby.
article_snippet: When a paramedic saying: 'Who's the one with the medical degree.
article_snippet: The deputy head of undergraduate medicine at Durham University School recalled how Pillay approached The deputy head of undergraduate medicine at Durham University School claiming The deputy head of undergraduate medicine at Durham University School had moved back into the area and had a secured a job at a local hospital.
article_snippet: The deputy head of undergraduate medicine at Durham University School later turned up for a lecture on anorexia claiming to be an expert on clinical skills and was already speaking to the students when the lecturer arrived.
article_snippet: Pillay abused Pillay position to gain access to an operating theatre, to a patient who collapsed in the street and to the students at Durham University School. '