Damned if you do and damned if you don’t, a physician who uses non-pharmaceutical healing not covered by insurance, is attacked for “only accepting cash”. He was also attacked for charging $90 per visit. That is actually proof that Dr. Zielke was actually a good, kind-hearted, compassionate physician. Many clinics charge $250 or more per visit.
Andrzej K. Zielke, MD is a board-certified anesthesiologist, pain management and critical care specialist in GIBSONIA, Pa. In Poland he is also a Head and Neck Surgeon and Board Certified Audiologist. He has spent most of his professional career working for different universities in Poland and USA. Dissatisfied with standard conventional medical care, he opened Medical Frontiers in 2003.
Some of the services he provides at Medical Frontiers are laser therapy, ozone therapy, prolotherapy including PRP (platelet rich plasma), nutrition, intravenous vitamin C, and spinal rehabilitation. As do all of us knowledgeable in healing alternatives, he believes that the secret of successful treatment is not lying in another new prescription medication but in the natural ability of the body to heal itself. The role of a physician is to understand these healing mechanisms and to create optimal conditions in the body necessary to make them possible.
Dr. Zielke provides his patients with information on how to restore the biochemical environment in their bodies, including dietary and lifestyle changes. So he did all the good things that I did, and actually helped people heal from their diseases. It might be the right thing to do, but it isn’t what the area hospitals or the government want. So they work together to eliminate such doctors.
The government propaganda machine has him referred to in the media as a “pill mill” to obviously tamper with public opinion and prospective jurors. He was arrested October 5, 2017 on charges that he overprescribed pain meds and fraud. There is no fraud here. A doctor who practices healing alternative medicine stays away from insurance so they don’t get charged with fraud. I know because I was charged with fraud because I accepted government insurance even though my alternatives were not charged to insurance. But in their media propaganda, the government tries to paint fraud into the doctor’s practice because it was cash-only.
The government also plants opiaphobic propaganda in people’s minds, using complaints of former patients. Usually a former patient is a disgruntled patient that has been discharged for breach of agreement, and they will do or say anything to hurt the physician. I don’t believe that the investigation was the result of patient complaints anyway. I think Dr. Zielke was targeted for the usual reasons:
- He is a minority, being Polish.
- He is independent, and there are probably hospital-owned pain management clinics that want his patients
- He uses healing alternatives. The government doesn’t want people healed.
They also try to make him look bad because he sends his patients to one pharmacy. That is actually recommended standard of care. A list of approved pharmacies provides better follow-up. With the negative treatment pain patients get from chain stores like CVS and Walgreens, the independent pharmacies or small ones like Medicine Shoppe are often chosen by the doctor.
I have a personal message to Erin Harper who was quoted in the media blaming the doctor and opioids for addiction:
Opioids don’t cause addiction. If you have friends that are addicts, instead of blaming doctors, watch my video The REAL Cause of Drug Abuse here: https://doctorsofcourage.org/videos/ and tell them about it. If you don’t, YOU are the guilty one for contributing to addiction.
Andrzej Zielke, MD Addendum
Here’s the reason why doctors under attack for prescribing opioids should never waive their rights to a speedy trial. Dr. Zielke was staunchly standing by his innocence. However, after 4 years since indictment and the freezing/confiscation of all of his assets, he probably did not have the resouces needed to go to trial. So in July, 2021, he accepted a plea agreement. Lucky for him, though, he was only sentenced to 1 year home confinement.
Doctors in practice should be contributing to a fund to help doctors fight these illegal charges in court. Instead, by not helping, they are contributing to the targeting of the next doctor. One of these days it will be them.
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.
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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My husband was a patient of Dr Zielke for several years and only stopped seeing him because we moved out of state. It has been a horror to get treatment for his pain since. I am saddened, first to see that media has painted this doctor as some kind of pill mill dr. My husband suffered from chronic pain requiring surgeries we could not afford at the time. If he stopped working, we had no income, as I was home caring for our special needs child and new born. He never offered pain meds without an alternative or accompanying treatment and ALWAYS had a plan with very real reviews and adjustments. Having worked for UPMC Health Plan- an agreed pharmacy is a sign of a responsible Dr holding his patients accountable and insuring they are not dr shopping. W have been unable to get in touch with the dr while looking for records and came across this article. I am saddened and pray all works out for Dr Z and his staff.
Mainstream Medicine almost cost me my life: It took 21/2 mos. two hospitalizations and many $ to diagnose meningitis d/t Lyme, even though in my initial I gave MENTIONED A HEADS UP OF MENINGITIS DUE TO A STIFF NECK. Not one “doctor” in the office, in the hospital ever examined my body, touched me, looked at me, but only attended to their electronic device with a nebulous diagnosis of “unspec. viral infection”. Much pain and suffering in the hands of incompetents who managed to get their share of profit by my c/o’s. I am still at the mercy of Lyme with no treatment due to the ignorance and unprofitability in treating Lyme and its horrible effects. I feel a time bomb in my body, never knowing when it will explode. No mention is made in my source of your practice (2016), but interested in whether you treat the effects of Lyme
I am unlicensed at the moment, and cannot treat anything through a doctor/patient relationship. However, Lyme is curable through the Seven Steps to Healing. It is a case of bad organisms that have taken up residence in a toxic environment. Clean up the environment, put in the good (HMF) bacteria, provide the nutrients for the body to heal itself, and the body will rid itself of the Lyme organism. We can even do that with HIV and Hepatitis C. So if you are interested in healing, I recommend the DVD which you can get through the shop on DoctorsofCourage. The packages of several healing DVDs is the best buy, because you also need to know the nutrition necessary, and how the healing works.
this article sounds way to real ! this is what the government is doing to people. this doctor obviously cared about his patients and the fact that a lot of people do need pain medication for any relief at all. if someone is abusing them then stop blaming the doctors! if u didn’t want pain meds then why not say that from the start ? you don’t turn into an addict because youv received pain meds, u made that decision to start abusing them to numb ur emotional pain instead of taking them as prescribed for actual pain ..it’s crazy how no one will take responsibility for their actions and put the blame on drs these addicts will never heal until they accept it..it would be smart if to tell doctors this before u say anything ..so bc of this,doctors are getting scared they r next .. and what is happening is that none of them want to give pain medication from fear they will also be arrested. therefore people who do really need this relief are going to go out on the streets and seek it somewhere else and then participate in illegal practices.. it’s a shame!