Linda Cheek, MD, Author at Doctors of Courage

Frederick W. Floyd, DO

by Linda Cheek, MD | Feb, Fri, 2018 | Plea agreement | 4 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 | 12 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...

Jay Kaushik Joshi, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Fri, 2018 | Doctor charged, Plea agreement | 1 comment

Jay Joshi, MD, 33, a family practitioner in Munster, Indiana, was indicted January 23, 2018 on four counts of selling, distributing or dispensing hydrocodone based on prescriptions issued to a government agent falsely perpetrating himself as a patient in need of...

Gilberto Sanchez, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Tue, 2018 | Plea agreement | 6 comments

Gilberto Sanchez, MD, 56, of Cecil, Alabama, pleaded guilty Nov, 2017 to drug distribution conspiracy, health care fraud, and money laundering charges from his family practice in Montgomery, AL. Now here’s an interesting tidbit of information. Try to figure this out....

Devendra I. Patel, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Thu, 2018 | Plea agreement | 2 comments

Devendrakumar (Devendra) Ishwarbhai Patel, 58, a cardiologist in Elko, Nevada is the first in that state to face criminal charges since the formation of the Justice Department’s Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit. Nevada is one of 12 states under a U.S. Justice...

Frederick W. Floyd, DO

Back to the Beginning–James F. Graves, MD

Jay Kaushik Joshi, MD

Gilberto Sanchez, MD

Devendra I. Patel, MD

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