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More bad medicine: Updates on the Zholia Alemi case

13 October 2025

I was in the middle of compiling a “Fortnight in Skeptical History” article when I realised that over two years, back when the newsletter was released weekly, I had already covered both weeks in the period from October 13th to October 26th. While I had to scrap that idea, I saw my entry for Zholia Alemi and was curious about the progress of her legal case in the UK. I covered Alemi in my October 2023 article about fake doctors or doctors who worked fraudulently in New Zealand. As I wrote back then:

Bad medicine: The fraudster doctors of New Zealand

24 October 2023

In my newsletter article last week, one of the dates referred to the 2018 trial of Zholia Alemi, a former Auckland University medical student who was able to practise psychiatry across the NHS and evade discovery for two decades before being undone by her own greed. I was reminded about two other, peculiar cases of fraudster doctors in NZ and thought that it would make a good article and segment in the most recent episode of the Yeah...Nah podcast.