How about this picture? 82 y/o Noel L Smith, MD, of Manhattan, NY, with 57 years of experience as a general surgeon and family practitioner, is led handcuffed into a courtroom for indictment as a drug pusher. Naturally, the prosecution and law enforcement is only after confiscating his assets from his 57 years of practice taking care of New York’s citizens. Once they have searched his office and home, forfeited all of his savings and assets, they will probably leave him alone, totally ruined and shamed. Our government has become so evil.
Led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr, with the New York City Police Department, the Business Integrity Commission, the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, and the New York Strike Force Tactical Diversion Squad conspiring, nine people were indicted for conspiring to distribute controlled substances. This action against doctors alone is government misuse of the law, which they are now commonly doing to achieve promotions and pay their salaries. Money is now their God, and ethics or morals are no longer a player.
The “drugs” he allegedly distributed “illegally” were oxycodone, Adderall, Klonopin and Suboxone—all FDA-approved legal drugs that doctors are allowed to prescribe. But the real conspirators wrote in their DEA press release that these were “illicit prescription drugs”. Now “illicit” means illegal or forbidden by law. They are just playing on the propaganda against drugs now. No FDA-approved drug prescribed by a doctor to a patient is “illicit”.
Now all the government has been able to say is that five of the other defendants presented to Dr. Smith as patients. But then they supposedly sold the pills. Some of those defendants were also charged with identity theft for allegedly impersonating other individuals to obtain more pills.
All they could say against Dr. Smith was that he “was allegedly prescribing controlled substances in a ‘manner inconsistent with public health and safety,’” But Dr. Smith, with 57 years of experience, had a doctor/patient relationship and trusted his patients, not expecting them to be criminals and drug-pushers. They were the criminals, not him. But the government can’t confiscate those individuals’ assets like they can the doctor’s. And usually these street dealers don’t have anything to confiscate to even make it worth the government’s while. So the eight others indicted will simply be used to pressure Dr. Smith to take a plea, or act as witnesses against him in trial. That’s the DOJ protocol now, that they even train their agents to do. Illegal or not, today it doesn’t make a difference. The government can do whatever it wants, including break the law, to convict their target.
On Feb 9, 2023, the New York Board of medicine placed a restriction on Dr. Smith. He was ordered to surrender his DEA certificate and was precluded from prescribing, administering, dispensing, or ordering any controlled substances in New York State.
We must end this targeting of good, compassionate physicians for the looting of assets that the government agents now use as their major income. We must end government abuse of the law. How do we do that? First, we must remove immunity from government officials. If they break the law to convict an innocent person, they should be held accountable like any criminal. We must make following the letter of the law the principle of the DOJ. And finally, we must recognize the fact that drugs do not cause addiction and repeal the Controlled Substance Act. The answer on how to do this is right here on Doctorsofcourage.org. Join the fight, or you could be next.
Doctors are not policemen, and policemen should not be playing doctor!
Linda Cheek is a teacher and disenfranchised medical doctor, turned activist, author, and speaker. A victim of prosecutorial misconduct and outright law-breaking of the government agencies DEA, DHHS, and DOJ, she hopes to be a part of exonerating all doctors illegally attacked through the Controlled Substance Act. She holds the key to success, as she can offset the government propaganda that drugs cause addiction with the truth: The REAL Cause of Drug Abuse.
Get a free gift to learn how the government is breaking the law to attack your doctor: Click here to get my free gift
I am Noel Smith, MD
Thank you for your support
Charges were all dismissed
6/11/2024.
Some other doctors are not
this fortunate and I am
concerned for them
Please continue your
important work
Great to hear! Congratulations! Most doctors are not that fortunate.
I don’t think medicine will ever recover from this violation of law 42-1395,,,,,,,dark age of medicine for sure,,,mw
It is not worth practicing medicine after 70, and start prescribing narcotics, you just looking for trouble with the law And they happily grab all your property, money and all your benefits. This is not the country where people appreciate your service. It is better to serve outside USA under served heath care. They will definitely appreciate your service
Several questions come into my head when I read about this case: Why is an 82 y.o. surgeon prescribing or distributing controlled drugs? Is it for post-operative pain?? What rationale does he have for this?? I can understand why a surgeon would be prescribing pain meds, but don’t understand why he would be prescribing amphetamines and anti-anxiety drugs.
Although I’m very sympathetic towards practitioners who have been wrongly accused of improper prescribing, I also realize that there are some rogue people out there who need to be reined in.
It is very common for surgeons, when they reach the age that they cannot perform surgery to their satisfaction, maybe because of a tremor, vision, or just standing on their feet long hours, to back down to general practice. That is what Dr. Smith was doing at this point, not performing surgery. Naturally he probably could have retired, as surgeons make a better living than FP’s, but my guess is that he still wanted to help people. Most doctors are in the profession for that purpose–to help people, not after the money like the prosectution wants you to believe.
To your comment of “Most doctors are in the profession…to help people, not after the money like the prosecution wants you to believe.” I’d like to relate the following anecdotes as I was a patient of Dr. Smith’s, who received 1 prescription from him that I took as prescribed. He seemed a kindly older gentleman but clearly no longer near the top of his game. And while he seemed to derive genuine pleasure from treating my issue without the judgement or stigma I received from other doctors : he charged $200 per each 5-min refill visit (“working out for you okay? any side effects? ok, great. I’ll send the prescription over””)-cash preferred- (not only didn’t he take my insurance, the office stopped even running it through my carrier, so I couldn’t claim the fee for my FSA ). Also there were no consistent “office hours” or appointments, you just showed up, hoped they’d be open and place your name on a list. The office staff appeared to have only one priority: grab that $200 out of your pocket, b/c the depressing, dirty office had piles of patient files heaped all over and smelled strongly of urine.
Again, he didn’t seem to be some evil drug-dealing mastermind, nor do I they he was a helpless pawn in the drug wars targetted by a few bad apples and a DA with an axe to grind. I think he found an easy way to make a few extra $$$ and figured what he didn’t know wouldn’t hurt anyone.
Really? You consider $200 an expensive office visit when most doctors are charging $400-$500 for the same thing? Blame the government for making you come back monthly for a simple refill. A doctor really doesn’t have to do much to refill a regular medicine. The cost of healthcare today is because of the Controlled Substance Act, which must be repealed.