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INTRODUCTION:
Doctors and Patients of Courage needs more workers on our “team”. For the last 5 years, DoC has been a team of one–Linda Cheek, MD–a victim of illegal government persecution for doing her job and actually helping her patients heal from disease. She thought when she created this website that people–both doctors and the suffering chronic pain patients–would flock to her assistance. That has not been the case. But she still holds tight to the truth–that the War on Doctors and Patients can be ended with the knowledge that she can provide. For that reason, she has also developed a website–lindacheekmd.com–to extend her reach to anyone who wants to engage her as a speaker.
We do have other contributors as writers, but no one has stepped up to help with the organization or operation. If you, the reader, are interested in being a working member of the team, please Contact Us. We need you.
Meanwhile, here is a short synopsis as to why Dr. Cheek has created this website and is working for the restoration of the doctor-patient relationship and the freedom to treat patients appropriately. You can read her full biography on lindacheekmd.com.
DRUGS ARE NOT THE CAUSE OF ADDICTION!
Linda Cheek, MD
Healthcare Advocate, Speaker, and Author
On Fire for True Health Care
and Justice
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The Rest of the Story: Medical Board and DEA misconduct in the beginning
Gross Government Misconduct is the DOJ modus operandi
Doctors are Guilty Until Proven Innocent!
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Linda is a Hero
What is a hero?
A hero is a person who does what is right, in spite of the consequences. Because of her alternative medical knowledge, Linda could validate a patient’s complaint of pain. Thirty percent of Americans have some type of chronic pain, and it is important that primary care physicians be allowed to treat it. Even though Southwest Virginia was one of the first districts to start prosecuting doctors for treating pain, Linda not only treated her patients’ pain, but healed it. Her patient base was primarily uninsured or government insured, two categories of what we now call the “expendable populations” in the eyes of the government. So in 2006 her office was illegally raided and she was charged with Medicare/Medicaid fraud. Two years later, Feb 28, 2008, she pleaded guilty to one count Medicare/Medicaid fraud becaus she had no resources to fight. This experience is documented in her book Target: Pain Doc.
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world." --Mahatma Gandhi
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
― Robert F. Kennedy
The Time is Always Right to Do What is Right.
“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” Julius Caesar
“The greatest evil is physical pain.” –Augustine of Hippo
“Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself.” — Albert Schweitzer
"Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere" --Martin Luther King
“When even one American-who has done nothing wrong-is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth-then all Americans are in peril.”–Harry S. Truman
“We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Rest of the Story
Because the DEA had Linda targeted with a plan, they did not reinstate her DEA certificate as specified on their website. Linda had another licensed physician–Dr. Kathleen Schultz, DO–taking care of the patients requiring controlled substances.
After 18 months of waiting, the DEA finally denied Linda’s certificate application. In June, 2010 the DEA and US Attorney’s office investigators raided Linda’s office a second time on another fishing expedition. DEA agent Steven Tomaziefski, committed perjury to get Linda indicted.
But through regular visits to her home by the DEA and representatives from the US Attorney’s office, Kathy was persuaded to commit perjury to save her own neck.
Linda’s worthless attorney Rhonda Overstreet from Bedford, VA, appointed as a public defender, did nothing to defend her, and actually allowed the perjury to go uncontested, even though she had exculpatory evidence in her possession.
Misconduct is the MO of the DOJ
The government had no plan to let Linda return to healing people. Attacking innocent doctors has become the modus operandi of the Department of Justice–for money, job security, and promotions. The rule of law is absent in our government, as exposed in Licensed to Lie by Sidney Powell.
But doctors continue to be naive and trusting, which makes them the perfect prey. They think that as long as they are following the rules of prescribing opioids, that they are safe. And that the doctors who have been attacked have done something illegal…until it happens to them.
Then the prosecutors use gross government misconduct of forced perjury and actual lawbreaking to indict and convict.
This needs to be exposed to the citizens of America–to bring justice back. Because when they finish with the doctors, they will find another profession to attack–and it might be yours.
"I'm safe. I'm not doing anything wrong." --any doctor
First they came for the mentally ill addicts, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a mentally ill addict.
Then they came for the empathetic prescribers, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not an empathetic prescriber.
Then they came for the Pharmacists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Pharmacist.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Have you noticed that most doctors (98%, all of which are innocent) charged with criminal prescribing of controlled substances plead guilty? Why is that, when the government is using the Controlled Stubstance Act illegally aginst them?
Basically, our government has stacked the deck against anyone charged with this crime. They confiscate all assets the doctor owns, so that they do not have any means of defense. Public defenders’ jobs are government designed to get the victim to plea. Also, doctors face in court the government-created propaganda that opioids cause addiction.
So in Feburary, 2013, Linda was convicted of a crime she did not commit–using the DEA license of another practitioner.
Supreme Court is Ignored by the DOJ, with no repercussions
US v Roth: Deliberate perjury to the grand jury may result in dismissal of charges.
Linder v. US: “Direct control of medical practice is beyond the power of the Federal government. Congress therefore, cannot directly restrict the professional judgment of the physician or interfere with its free exercise in the treatment of disease. Federal power is delegated, and its prescribed limits must not be transcended even though the end seems desirable.”
Alderson FPC was no "Camp Cupcake"!
Rule #1: The staff is always right.
Rule #2: The inmate is always wrong.
Staff doesn’t have to follow the law because there is no repercussion–they are immune to prosecution.
26 Months of Incarceration
Linda then spent her next 2 years in 2 prisons. The first was Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia–the same camp Martha Stewart was assigned to.
Alderson was the worst of all, and should be closed down. Inmates were abused by the staff, and only two rules are followed there. The first rule is “The staff is always right”. The second rule is “The inmate is always wrong.”
Because Linda was a thorn in the side of the law-breaking staff, she and her handicapped husband were set up by staff lies, and she was transferred to SFF Hazelton, in northern West Virginia. This, however, was a blessing. At SFF Hazelton, she was able to study the laws, learn the illegal action of the government, and form the basis for her work when she was released.
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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.
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