Anybody Need a Nurse?
The way she saw it, everyone was so desperate for nurses that no one would notice if she, say, stole a nurse’s uniform and pretended to work in the field. That’s exactly what she did. Julia Lyons became Nurse Julia. She worked under several other aliases, as well, including Ruth Hicks, Marie Walker, and Mrs. H.J. Behrens. She began working as a private nurse in people’s homes.
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If caring for sick patients without any kind of medical training wasn’t enough, Julia decided to use this opportunity to scam people out of money. Whenever she picked up prescriptions for her patients, Julia would lie about how much the medicine cost. But Julia didn’t just increase the cost by a few bucks.