Convicted physician Archives - Page 14 of 15

Michael Belfiore, DO

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

Michael Belfiore, DO, 53, of Westbury, NY is the next solo-practice family doctor willing to treat pain to be attacked professionally for doing his job as a doctor. He is also the eighth Long Island doctor to be attacked, in a federal targeting of pain-treating...

Fuhai Li, MD of Milford, PA

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jul, Fri, 2016 | Convicted physician | 11 comments

Fuhai Li, MD, 51, a neurologist in Milford, PA, was indicted July 20, 2016 on 24 charges of unlawfully distributing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose, money laundering and tax evasion. He was taken into custody that same day. Now let’s look at...

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...