Linda Cheek, MD, Author at Doctors of Courage

Attacking Doctors as Speakers

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Wed, 2018 | Doctor Raided | 5 comments

One current trend in the DOJ is to attack doctors for receiving money from pharmaceutical companies for speaking engagements to other professionals. Although completely legal and basically the only way established doctors can learn about new products, the government,...

Stuart Gitlow, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Tue, 2018 | Doctor Raided | 2 comments

Stuart Gitlow, MD, 56, of Woonsocket, RI, is a psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist, has a high national profile in addiction medicine and ran twice for a seat in the General Assembly of Rhode Island. But on March 17, 2018, FBI agents raided his home and...

Manuel C. Barit, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Wed, 2018 | Doctor charged | 2 comments

Manuel C. Barit, MD, is a 70 y/o solo practice family physician in the small town of Mullens, WV. In January, 2018, as part of Jeff Sessions’ attacks on independent physicians of 12 states through his Opioid Detection Unit, which invades the states’ prescription...

Fire the ignoramus Chuck Schumer

by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Mon, 2018 | Government propaganda | 2 comments

In May, 2018 an article appeared in the New York Times in which Chuck Schumer, senior US senator from New York and Senate Minority Leader, made the following ignorant comment: “More than a million high-dose opioid ‘super pills’ are prescribed by...

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...

Attacking Doctors as Speakers

Stuart Gitlow, MD

Manuel C. Barit, MD

Fire the ignoramus Chuck Schumer

Steven Holper, MD

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