C. Fred Gott, MD, 65, a cardiologist in Bowling Green, KY who also provided pain management services, is scheduled for a 4-week trial in Bowling Green, KY starting September 13. All chronic pain advocates within driving distance should be there to support him. 

The targeting of Dr. Gott began in 2013 with the deaths of three patients. That made him an “easy” target with the stigma attached. So they raided his office and the Kentucky Board Of Medical Licensure forced him to agree to an order of indefinite restriction of his license in 2014. Standard MO.

The initial indictment came in June 2015 with charges of “conspiring with others to knowingly and intentionally distribute and dispense, not for a legitimate medical purpose in the usual course of professional practice, controlled substances” which is an illegal use of the law meant to exempt doctors. The time frame was from 2006 to Sept., 2013. That allows the government to confiscate more of the doctor’s assets because they are using that same period to charge him with Medicare/Medicaid fraud by submitting claims at a higher code than the service provided and ordering unnecessary tests. The superceding indictment charges him with one count of conspiracy to knowingly and intentionally distribute and dispense, not for a legitimate medical purpose and beyond the bounds of professional medical practice, controlled substances; Counts two through 18 are charges of unlawful distribution and dispensing of controlled substances, three involving serious physical injury or death; Count 19 is health care fraud resulting in death. Counts 20-50 are health care fraud for upcoding and for medically unnecessary spirometry tests or electrocardiograms.

Our government is going broke. Their method now to try to save money is to charge innocent doctors for fraud where there is none, and then reclaim all the money issued to that doctor for every case during that time period. So in other words, Dr. Gott, if convicted, worked for 7 years for nothing. How would you like the government to come in and take 7 years of your income fraudulently?  

As for the charges of distribution resulting in death, it has been the Supreme Court decision in cases involving states that the drugs have to be determined as the actual cause of death. But even so, if the drugs were prescribed in good faith and for a legitimate purpose (which only the doctor can determine per the Controlled Substance Act—not the government), he should not be held criminally responsible. If the families want to bring civil charges, let them. But doctors should not be criminalized for their medical decision making. If allowed to do that here, when might your life be in jeopardy, depending on a doctor’s decision, and he waivers because of fear of criminal charges?

If convicted as charged, Dr. Gott could receive 20 years to life in federal prison and a $12 million fine. We have to stop these illegal incarcerations based on stigmatization and government propaganda for money.

Addendum for C. Fred Gott, MD

Dr. Gott never connected with us for help.  Instead, he finally succumbed to the pressure and pleaded guilty in Feb, 2018.  He was sentenced to 8 years in prison. As of August, 2023, he is at a halfway house with a release date of  3/13/2024. Anyone in communication with him, please tell him to work on forgiveness and when he is ready, join us in the effort to restore humanity to the nation.  

Addendum from the author:

I have failed in my mission to end these attacks on doctors and pain patients. Through John Bevere’s book The Bait of Satan, I have figured out why—my lack of forgiveness to those who attacked me. As in Mark 11: 24-26:

“Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”

And when you do not do the will of the Father, you are estranged from him and he will ignore you.  So we all must forgive the agents who attacked us in order for things to be made right through any of our works.

Jesus said

“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”

But we cannot lay down our lives for God unless we know Him well enough to trust Him. We must have the assurance that He would never do anything to harm us. He always looks out for what He knows is in our best interest. As a nation, those of us suffering from these attacks must understand that we are serving as God’s messengers of love.  We must forgive those who persecute us and love them instead, following God’s will for us. Then and only then will we see fruits from our labor.

So I hope that everyone who has suffered from what happened to the doctor can trust the Lord, forgive those who have hurt you, and help bring this country back to the God-fearing country that our forefathers founded. Then, and only then, can you be a part of the effort to stop these attacks. I look forward to that day.

To end these attacks, restore pain management, and provide compensation to all the families that have been destroyed by government overreach, we must get the Controlled Substance Act repealed.  Join Doctorsofcourage to get that done. Learn what we teach and spread the word.  NO DRUG CAUSES ADDICTION!! Let’s end the War on Drugs, Doctors and Pain Patients, end the black market, solve the southern border crisis, and restore proper pain management.  It CAN be done!