Convicted physician Archives - Page 15 of 16

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...

Lloyd Stanley Naramore, DO

by Linda Cheek, MD | Mar, Wed, 2016 | Convicted physician | 3 comments

Dr. Lloyd Stanley Naramore, now 71, formerly of Urgent Care in Cincinnati, Ohio, pleaded guilty in Kentucky in 2009 to charges that from 2005 to 2007 he issued prescriptions primarily for methadone amounting to approximately 50,000 pills to more than 100 patients from...

Paul Volkman, MD

by Linda Cheek, MD | Mar, Tue, 2016 | Convicted physician | 12 comments

Paul Volkman, MD, the physician for Tri-State Health Care and Pain Management Clinic in Ohio, was sentenced to four life terms in prison for his conviction in the drug overdose deaths of four patients, along with sentences ranging from 10 to 20 years on 13 other...

Keith L. Hindman, DO

by Linda Cheek, MD | Mar, Mon, 2016 | Convicted physician | 1 comment

Keith Hindman operated Foundation Medical Clinic in Deer Park, Washington, specializing in family practice medicine and pain management, and a counseling program known as Celebrate Recovery for patients who were abusing their prescription narcotics and/or were using...