Dr. Robert Jarvik, inventor of the Jarvik artificial heart.
I hear his voice on TV almost every night shilling for Lipitor, the cholesterol medication. "Dr. Robert Jarvik". They always say his name this way. I always assumed he was a medical doctor. Otherwise, why would they introduce him this way in a commercial for a medication? A doctor says it's good. That's what I heard.
But he's not a medical doctor, he's an engineer with a medical degree who has never practiced medicine a day in his life.
Congress is now investigating this as potential fraud.
International Herald Tribune (AP): Congress questions Jarvik's Lipitor lip service, credentials as part of celebrity-pitch probe
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