{"id":20492,"date":"2010-09-17T21:43:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T01:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20492"},"modified":"2010-09-17T21:43:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T01:43:31","slug":"how-harmless-is-stolen-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20492","title":{"rendered":"How harmless is Stolen Valor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Sterner sent us message today about David Michael Melamed who is a doctor practicing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mohssurgery.org\/i4a\/pages\/index.cfm?pageid=1\">Mohs skin cancer surgery<\/a> in New Mexico. He claims that he was a Navy doctor serving in both Afghanistan and Iraq. He also claimed that he was wounded and awarded the &#8220;Purple Heart Medal&#8221;. As is often the case on TAH, that&#8217;s not exactly true&#8230;more accurately, he wasn&#8217;t ever in the Navy, let alone a doctor in OEF\/OIF and it&#8217;s &#8220;Order of the Purple Heart&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Doug says he tried to warn authorities about Melamed years ago, Now it seems that the New Mexico Medical Board has caught on to his inflated resume` which besides his fake military career included a fake stint teaching at Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>Now we hear a mother in Texas has filed a malpractice suit against him for applying a sulfur powder to her son&#8217;s skin when the boy was allergic to sulfur. Melamed also had a license denied in Rhode Island because of an investigation of his conduct as a resident in California.  <\/p>\n<p>Doug is fond of saying that Stolen Valor crooks are always guilty of something else, too. Melamed is the poster child of that maxim.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more about Melamed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pownetwork.org\/phonies\/phonies1236.htm\">POW Net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Sterner sent us message today about David Michael Melamed who is a doctor practicing Mohs &hellip; <a title=\"How harmless is Stolen Valor?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20492\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How harmless is Stolen Valor?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}