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Hundreds of EMTs, paramedics said to be working with fake credentials

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More than 200 emergency medical technicians and paramedics in Massachusetts and New Hampshire have been practicing without legitimate certification, having paid certificate mills for fake credentials without taking any medical training, an investigation by Massachusetts public health officials has found.

In some cases, technicians bought the credentials to renew their state certification, but in others, medics used the fake credentials to allow them to begin treating patients for the first time.

The outfits peddling certificates provided them during the past two years to emergency medical technicians, paramedics, police officers, and firefighters in at least a dozen communities, including Boston, according to two public officials briefed on the investigation. Some 18 Boston firefighters are among those responding to medical emergencies without legitimate accreditation.

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