Convicted physician Archives - Page 10 of 16

Christopher G. Bereznak, DMD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Aug, Mon, 2019 | Convicted physician | 25 comments

Christopher G. Bereznak, DMD, 48, of Tunkhannock, PA was indicted on 9 counts February 6, 2018, for unlawfully distributing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose. As a result, his license to practice dentistry was suspended. This is a violation of...

Frank D. Lazzerini, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Thu, 2019 | Convicted physician | 9 comments

Frank D. Lazzerini, MD, 41, a family practitioner in Massillon, Ohio, was convicted on June 18, 2019 of 187 charges involving controlled drugs. He had been originally indicted on 272 counts in Feb, 2018, including drug trafficking of opioids, sedatives, anti-anxiety...

Joel Smithers, DO–the incarceration of Marcus Welby, MD through government collusion.

by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Fri, 2019 | Convicted physician | 36 comments

The government succeeded in convicting Marcus Welby, MD yesterday in the Western District of Virginia District Court of criminal compassion. If you are old enough, you remember the character played by Robert Young in the 1970’s—the kind of doctor most of us hold in...

Randy Lamartiniere, MD: We Need More Doctors Like Him

by Linda Cheek, MD | Apr, Thu, 2019 | Convicted physician | 6 comments

Dr. Lamartiniere, 60 years old, was a successful Internal Medicine physician with 30 years experience. He started seeing pain patients in 2014 after they were abandoned by their previous physician. He continued their usual pain management regimen after informing...

Richard A. Evans, MD, first release by First Step Act

by Linda Cheek, MD | Apr, Wed, 2019 | Convicted physician | 0 comments

On March 14, 2019, Richard Arthur Evans, MD, 74, was the first innocent incarcerated physician released from prison under the First Step Act. But it wasn’t a result of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) following the law because they rarely do. Dr. Evans was...

Albert Diaz, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Wed, 2019 | Convicted physician | 0 comments

Should this happen to any caring doctor, especially when the laws being used were designed for Jim Crow minority disenfranchisement and are now being used to confiscate doctors’ assets and provide jobs to government agents without a real cause? No doctor should be...