As enterprise security executives working other industries know, healthcare security needs to look inward in addition to considering patients and visitors when it comes to protection strategies.

In an odd but somewhat recurring example, a Florida teenager was sentenced recently to a year in jail after he was convicted of four felonies linked to his impersonation of a physician assistant in a hospital emergency department. He was convicted in August of two counts of practicing medicine without a license and two counts of impersonating a physician assistant at Osceola Regional Medical Center in Florida. He told investigators that the ruse began when he went to the hospital to get a badge for his job as a clerk at a doctor’s office across the street, but someone botched the paperwork. Prosecutors said he used the badge to work in the hospital emergency department for weeks, changing bandages, handling IVs and helping conduct exams. He also acknowledged having performed CPR on a patient suffering from a drug overdose.