The Park City Police Department in mid-June intervened in a peculiar case involving a report that a man, claiming to be a physician, was seen at the Park City Medical Center attempting to recruit people to work for him.
Rick Ryan, a Police Department captain, said the police were contacted at approximately 8 p.m. on June 13 about the man. The police were told the man was contacting staffers at the medical center. He identified himself as a doctor and told people he had a medical degree, a separate doctorate and a master’s degree in business administration, the police were told.
Medical center staffers called the police. Staffers had escorted the man, whose last known address is in Heber, to the parking lot and watched him drive away by the time the police arrived. The hospital staffers told the man he was prohibited from returning, Ryan said.
The captain said the man called the Police Department the next day to discuss the episode. The man told the police he was at the medical center eating dinner, Ryan said. He was escorted off the property while dining, the man told the police, according to Ryan. The captain said the police reiterated to the man that he was prohibited from returning to the medical center.
Ryan said state records do not show the man as being a doctor licensed to work in Utah. Ryan said the Police Department did not ask him whether he was at the medical center attempting to recruit people.
An initial report to the Police Department indicated the man wore hospital scrubs and a lab coat.
A spokesperson for the medical center, Amy Roberts, declined to discuss details about the case. She said the medical center provides a safe environment for employees and patients. Roberts said the medical center thanked the Police Department for its assistance.