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Response to Caroline Connor’s Comment

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jul, Wed, 2024 | Advocacy, Convicted physician | 2 comments

The following comment was put on the Doctorsofcourage post Michael Fletcher, MD by Caroline Connor. I want to reply to this comment in a post. I apologize that this is such a long post. Please read to the end. Ms. Connor’s comment: “I support Dr. Cheek’s posting on...

Michael E. Fletcher, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jul, Mon, 2024 | Convicted physician | 4 comments

Michael Fletcher, MD, 61 y/o, an interventional pain medicine specialist in Crestview Hills, KY, 8 miles south of Cincinnati, Ohio, was convicted of illegally prescribing opioids. Does that mean, according to the Controlled Substance Act or the SCOTUS decision in...

Muhamad Aly Rifai, MD acquitted

by Muhamad Rifai | May, Tue, 2024 | Acquitted | 7 comments

The ignorant encroachment on the practice of Psychiatry:The Case of the United States of America v Muhamad Aly Rifai, MD On November 8, 2022, the government of the United States of America indicted me on four counts of healthcare fraud. The counts involved four...

Alan Nelson, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Wed, 2024 | Convicted physician | 4 comments

Alan Nelson, MD, 79, is a family practice/internal medicine doctor in East Norwich, NY. At least that is what he was for 52 years until he was forced by the government to surrender his medical license for prescribing controlled substances. Is that any way to treat a...

Injustice in Healthcare in America

by Barbara Marino | May, Mon, 2024 | Acquitted, healthcare reform | 0 comments

The United States currently has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, higher than all communist nations including China, Cuba, and North Korea. As of 2021, over 2,000,000 people are prisoners in the United States, which equates to over 25% of the world’s...

Minority Professionals Attacked

by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Wed, 2024 | Convicted physician | 0 comments

How about taking out ten minority medical professionals in one fell swoop? This was the outcome in Northern Texas in 2021. I learned about this case last week through the daughter of pharmacist Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu, who is incarcerated at FMC Carswell. She, like all...

DEA Before Congress

by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Fri, 2024 | Convicted physician | 5 comments

Wednesday, May 8, the DEA Administrator Anne Milgram went before Congress, trying to explain away the deficiencies in the War on Drugs. In her statement they admit that “Getting illegal drugs in the United States is as easy as calling Uber Eats.” The DEA also added...

Adnan S. Khan, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Thu, 2024 | Doctor charged | 4 comments

Adnan S. Khan, MD is a 48 y/o family medicine doctor in Newport, New Hampshire with a subspecialty in addiction medicine. Being a minority makes him a government target. He received his medical degree from Medical University of Silesia and has been in practice in the...

Thomas Romano, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Mon, 2024 | Convicted physician | 3 comments

Thomas Romano, MD is a 74 y/o internal medicine physician with specialties in rheumatology and pain medicine in Martins Ferry, OH with over 46 years of experience. On Sept 12, 2019 he was indicted for 20 counts of diversion of controlled substances through the...

Noel Smith, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Apr, Thu, 2024 | Doctor charged | 8 comments

How about this picture? 82 y/o Noel L Smith, MD, of Manhattan, NY, with 57 years of experience as a general surgeon and family practitioner, is led handcuffed into a courtroom for indictment as a drug pusher. Naturally, the prosecution and law enforcement is only...

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