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American Family Practice Association failure

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Wed, 2016 | Government propaganda | 5 comments

As expected, physician organizations are jumping on board with the national anti-pain management fervor set off by the CDC Opioid Guidelines. In the June 15, 2016 American Family Physician, the publication of the American Academy of Family Physicians, is the headline...

The Real Danger to the Community

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Tue, 2016 | Doctor charged | 2 comments

Judge Schroeder Jr. said the potential for a crisis was serious enough to warrant a major change in Gosy’s bail. Dr. Gosy will now be able to return to his practice and, under the direction of a supervising physician, make recommendations on the use of painkillers and...

Christopher Watson, pharmacist

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Mon, 2016 | Plea agreement | 0 comments

Christopher Watson, 43, an independent pharmacist in Perryville, Arkansas, was arrested in January, 2015 as part of “Operation Pilluted”, a four-state organized attack on health care providers. Watson was charged with illegal distribution of a controlled substance....

Steven K. Mangar, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Mon, 2016 | Convicted physician | 0 comments

Steven Keith Mangar, MD and his office manager Maria Eclavea will be in court June 23, 2016 in California for the Monterey County Superior Court judge to consider a motion to prohibit Dr. Mangar from practicing medicine while his criminal proceedings are pending. The...

Jeffrey C. Bado, D.O.

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Fri, 2016 | Convicted physician | 8 comments

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...

Michael Minas, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Sun, 2016 | Convicted physician | 17 comments

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...

Xiulu Ruan, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Sun, 2016 | Convicted physician | 2 comments

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...

Operation “Pilluted”

by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Wed, 2016 | DEA | 0 comments

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,...

John Patrick Couch, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Tue, 2016 | Doctor charged | 12 comments

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...

John Alan Littleford, DO

by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Mon, 2016 | Plea agreement | 4 comments

Seventy year old Dr. John Littleford, DO, a Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation specialist and owner of Pain and Injury Clinic in Parker, Colorado in the outskirts of Denver has been charged in federal court with conspiring to distribute excessive amounts of...

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