Linda Cheek, MD, Author at Doctors of Courage

Steven Holper, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Mar, Fri, 2018 | Plea agreement | 6 comments

Steven Holper, MD, 66, a PM & R (physical medicine & rehabilitation) pain management physician in Law Vegas, NV was charged Feb 13 with seven-counts of distribution of Fentanyl, and 22-counts of health care fraud relating to Subsys, a sublingual form of...

Frank C. Purpera, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Feb, Tue, 2018 | Convicted physician | 0 comments

Raided in 2016 and arrested in 2017, Frank Craig. Purpera, Jr., MD, 42, of Blacksburg, VA was convicted Feb, 2018 of 68 counts of fraud, one count of omitting information required on a government form, and one count of lying to a government official. Dr. Purpera had...

Mehdi Nikparvar-Fard, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Feb, Mon, 2018 | Doctor charged | 0 comments

Mehdi Nikparvar-Fard, MD, referred to by his patients as “Dr. Nick”, 46, of Penn Valley, PA, is an internist/pain management physician in Pennsylvania currently sitting in a jail cell for alleged charges that appear rather suspicious. He is the owner of six offices...

Frederick W. Floyd, DO

by Linda Cheek, MD | Feb, Fri, 2018 | Plea agreement | 3 comments

Frederick Floyd, III, DO, 58, was an internist who specialized in pain management in New Orleans, LA with 22 years of experience. He was sentenced Jan. 25, 2018 to 10 years in prison as a result of his guilty plea September, 2017 to two counts: illegally dispensing...

Back to the Beginning–James F. Graves, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Mon, 2018 | Convicted physician | 6 comments

The Controlled Substance Act was designed by Congress to go after offshore drug cartels and confiscate their assets. However, the DEA, formed in 1973 for that purpose, was an abject failure. So in the 1990’s they creatively turned the CSA against an easy, unexpecting...

Steven Holper, MD

Frank C. Purpera, MD

Mehdi Nikparvar-Fard, MD

Frederick W. Floyd, DO

Back to the Beginning–James F. Graves, MD

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