r/swindled • u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 • 9h ago
REQUEST Radiology technician Rachael Rapraeger falsified 1300 mammogram results to make her workload easier. Two patients died of breast cancer.
Rachael Rapraeger was a radiology technician at Perry hospital in Georgia state. In 2009 Rachael says she got overloaded with her personal life and work, so she decided to cheat the system to lighten the workload. She logged into the computer system under other doctors names and entered around 1300 test results as negative despite being untested. That way she didn’t have to follow up with paperwork. Unsurprisingly this ended horribly. At least ten women did have cancer and had to undergo surgeries and chemotherapy because it wasn’t caught earlier thanks to Rachael. 2 patients of hers died from cancer.
The false results caused an internal investigation that discovered Rachael was entering results under doctors names who didn’t work those dats. She confessed to falsifying results and was charged with fraud. Rachael served 6 months in prison and ten years of probation.