by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Fri, 2016 | Convicted physician |
Jeffrey Bado, DO, 60, of Philadelphia, is facing a September trial on a 322-count federal indictment related to opioid prescribing. Dr. Bado calls himself a “poster child” in the war against doctors. Seeing the ineffectiveness of the usual interventional treatments of...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Sun, 2016 | Convicted physician |
Michael Minas, MD, 51, a solo, independent family practice doctor in Eagle, Idaho, was indicted in June, 2014, with seventeen counts of distributing a controlled substance outside the usual course of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose. He...
by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Sun, 2016 | Convicted physician |
Xiulu Ruan, MD, of Physician’s Pain Specialists of Alabama in Mobile and co-owner of C&R Pharmacy, is the co-defendant to Dr. John Patrick Couch. Most of the discussion of the articles written about Dr. Couch on my post about him also apply to Dr. Ruan. He has...
by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Wed, 2016 | DEA |
In May, 2015, the Drug Enforcement Administration lead by DEA agent Keith Brown orchestrated a supposed multistate crackdown on prescription drug abuse with raids at pain clinics, pharmacies and other locations in Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi,...
by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Tue, 2016 | Doctor charged |
This post is an example of how the media plays a part in the incarceration of innocent physicians. Whether it is just for the sensationalism or if the government has a part in this, I don’t know. But the automatic incrimination of doctors through the power of the...