PDMPs Part 3: Using Analytics to Attack Doctors
Data analytics companies are growing in the business market. It has become quite competitive. One thing I’ve noticed about the two main companies focusing on heath records and data is that they are registered as 501 (c)(3) nonprofits. I personally don’t see how...
PDMPs, Part 2: Do You Know Your Narx Score?
So do you know your Narx Score? First, what is the Narx Score? How did it come about? In 2011, a company in Louisville, KY—Appriss—had their first meeting to begin the development of the analytics of PDMP data creating the Narx Score. The Narx Score is a numeric...
PDMPs, Part 1: Are They Helpful or Harmful?
What is the PDMP? PDMP stands for Prescription Drug Monitoring Program. PDMPs collect, monitor and analyze prescribing and dispensing data submitted by pharmacies and practitioners dispensing controlled drugs from their offices. The idea behind it was to help in...
Response to Purdue Pharma’s Plea
Yesterday, my visceral tweet on Purdue’s prosecution ignored a much bigger problem—the problem of using the gun of prosecution to solve a medical problem. Prosecution for prescribing opiate is to let ironsmith set a fracture with a hammer! Stop sacrificial lambs. MD’s...
Steven K. Mangar, MD Case Finally Resolved
Steven Keith Mangar, MD, 50, a Stanford graduate in anesthesiology and pain management, from Salinas, California finally has some resolution of his 5 year old attack by our rogue government. I originally wrote a post on him in June, 2016, in the 3rd month of...
Exposing the Lack of Prison Health Care
I have permission from 67 y/o Randall W. Wade’s wife, Sharon, to publish her journal entries about the deplorable medical care in prisons. I can guarantee, from personal experience, that this is not the exception, but the rule. We need to take away implied immunity...
A. John Titus, MD
Dr. Ajeeb John Titus, 55, a family practice physician in Bethlehem Township, Pa, treating primarily pain and addiction, and also specializing in alternative medicine and interested in the medical use of cannabis, is the latest government target for doing his job. He...
Advice: Live RIGHT NOW!!
It has taken me a couple days to sit, round up, and review all the thoughts, feelings, and emotions I’ve had over the past coup!e of days after spending yet another birthday incarcerated. What would’ve been the month to finally have my “day in...
MLK “I Have a Dream” Rally
I am moved to write this post as I watch the rally in Washington on the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr’s I Have a Dream speech. It brings memories back, and also what needs to happen for his dream to be realized. The answer is available. Will people...Get Your DoC T-shirts
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