assistant. but the teen insists this isn t his fault. it s the hospital s fault. trace gallagher with the story. explain why he says the hospital is to blame. well, as you might imagine, police say everything he says is kind of to be taken with a grain of salt. matthew claims he was simply going down to get his assistant clerk s bad in administration and that he might have forgotten to fill out his date of birth. apparently somebody filled in that he was 19 instead of 17. and then for some unexplained reason they handed him a physician s assistant badge. he called that a stupid mistake and now he wants to find out who is behind that mistake so he can have them fired. listen. what s let s let s just say that i m a physician s assistant are you that stupid put me in a system with that without any credentials or any paperwork or nothing? you know. is that something that you can see happening over there? as far as like? happening like that?
you work there i would hope not. i would hope not. that is a huge liability for the hospital and a huge patient safety issue. yeah, that was kind of the bold part of his interrogation as that three-hour interrogation went on he started to admit that maybe he did make some mistakes and maybe he did try to take advantage of the system a bit. shep? shepard: maybe. i mentioned the report that he once tried to impersonate a nurse back when he was 13. but now i understand that wasn t the only adventure at that hospital. no. that hospital you are talking about is saint cloud hospital in central florida out near disney. and he says knowing that he was on alert that he went in there and tried again to get a physician s assistant badge and also admitted to police that he got a bunch of badges. in fact he says he likes to shadow doctors around because some day he wants to be a doctor and that s why he hey has the badges. matthew says he cannot catch a break. in fact, he has been being
in them, the 18-year-old works no medical training at all, he admits he performed cpr on a woman who overdosed and explains that he had to because the doctor left the room. he said, can you take over cpr, and i started doing cpr on her for a minute or two minutes while he got medication and came back in. that was it. the only reason i did it because nobody else was in there. shepard: investigators say the teen was supposed to be working in the billing department but he claims he mistakenly got a physician s assistant badge, somehow, he told the cops he would hold patients hands during procedures and he walked around with a laboratory coat and learned medical terminology so he would not sound like an idiot. but officials say he has a history of faking identity and he was arrest add few months after that interrogation on charges of impersonating an officer. the orlando newspapers report that the teen tried to get