By Alyssa Guzman For Dailymail.Com 4/27/2022
REVEALED: NYC medic who became star tweeting about working on COVID frontline treating kids in hospital is actually a SCHOOL pediatrician with cushy 9-5 job
• Dr. Risa Hoshino has been accused of lying about working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic
• The social media physician, who claimed to be working inside a hospital treating children COVID-19 cases, was found out to be a school pediatrician
• The city-employed pediatrician reportedly worked a cushy $170,000 Monday-Friday job, which she mostly worked remotely
• She would often tweet about wearing an N95 mask for 12-hours and share heartbreaking stories of sick children on Twitter
• Meanwhile, her Instagram would show her having dinner with friends and bikini shots on the beach
• The doctor also claimed to work for Mount Sinai, despite not having any affiliation with the hospital since completing her residency in 2017
A New York City school pediatrician with a cushy 9-5 job has been accused of lying about treating COVID-stricken children on the hospital frontline.
Dr. Risa Hoshino was hailed on many top physician influencer lists, and was dubbed 'a veteran of using social media to debunk scientific falsehoods' by the Scientist magazine.
But she has now been accused of lying about working 12-hour hospital shifts and taking care of children suffering from long-COVID in an investigation by Substack blogger Sarah Beth Burwick.
Hoshino tweeted about long shifts in full PPE while treating children suffering from long COVID and handing out injections.
But Burwick has called her out, saying the job Hoshino does involves no such work. She also flagged social media photos of the medic enjoying herself which didn't tally with Hoshino's claims of back-breaking shifts.
Hoshino, whose LinkedIn claims she works for Mount Sinai, was found out to be a city-employed school pediatrician who mostly worked a remote job for around $170,000 a year during the pandemic.
She did, however, complete her residency at the hospital network in 2017, but has since worked as a school pediatrician with 9-5 hours.
Her strong 113,000 followers - which she built up in a year-and-a-half - has since crashed to 32,200 since the accusations first surfaced.
All the doctor's accounts are now locked or deleted.
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