A local physician has been detained on allegations that he allowed an unlicensed student to examine patients and issue prescriptions under his name while he was out of the country for months at a time.
In a detention petition, prosecutors from the Illinois Attorney General’s Office said Dr. Mohammad Khamis, 56, “perpetuated two different schemes over the past couple of years,” showing “an absolute reckless disregard for the health and safety for the patients who sought his medical care.”
According to a detention petition, Khamis “orchestrated the fraudulent office scheme” by staffing his River Forest medical office with a student from his “sham medical school in Bosnia” while he was overseas for extended periods…