Daily, the news in Guyana unfolds like a Lifetime movie, a soap opera, or a poorly written horror/thriller. Just when we think events cannot be more shocking, we are aghast and proven wrong.
The Fake Doctor
One of our Lifetime movie scenarios this week featured a young man, Mikhail McLennan, who pretended to be a doctor. Guyana has its fair share of impersonators. The sweet embrace with the lie comforts them when the truth is too harsh, or the stakes are too high. One may assume that detaching from reality is an issue only for the dirty and disheveled people we see on the streets. However, there are many who look well, are nicely dressed, and appear to be succeeding in life but are miles away from reality.