Ex-staffers told the court the practice billed patients for every phone call. And now, evidence the defense says could clear the doctors has vanished—deleted by police.

At Charlottenlund Medical Clinic, F12 was a shortcut to taxpayer money

Illustration: Christine Vierø
Illustration: Christine Vierø
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F12. It’s a shortcut key on the keyboard that activates a specific pre-programmed function on a computer. In Microsoft Word, F12 is ’save as’. In the billing system of the Charlottenlund Medical House, which is suspected of fraud, F12 activated something quite different.

A series of former employees have testified in the criminal case that F12 was the staff’s shortcut key to register the service for a telephone consultation whenever they had any form of phone contact with patients.

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