by Linda Cheek, MD | Oct, Thu, 2020 | Medicine |
What is the PDMP? PDMP stands for Prescription Drug Monitoring Program. PDMPs collect, monitor and analyze prescribing and dispensing data submitted by pharmacies and practitioners dispensing controlled drugs from their offices. The idea behind it was to help in...
by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Tue, 2019 | Medicine |
More doctors are being owned by large conglomerate clinics or hospitals. And the hospitals are in cahoots with the government, or else THEY would be reaping the attacks for insurance fraud, because that is where the fraud lies. Hospital-owned doctors are instructed to...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Feb, Mon, 2019 | Medicine |
Many doctors read Medscape for information pertaining to their practice. Jan. 18, 2019, Medscape released a CME activity for practitioners entitled Opioids for Chronic Pain Better Than Placebo? First, the authors spout data from an editorial written by someone who...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Sep, Tue, 2018 | Medicine |
Hawre Jalal et al. analyzed nearly 600,000 unintentional drug overdoses over a 38-year period from 1979 to 2016 and published their results in Science Magazine. The overall mortality rate closely followed an exponential growth curve, doubling every 9 years. Of...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Thu, 2018 | Medicine |
The FDA has finally looked out of the conventional medicine box and has approved a device based on auriculotherapy. Auriculotherapy is an energetic form of medicine. It uses the ear as a hologram of the body and through placement of needles in the corresponding...
by Billy Earley | Feb, Mon, 2018 | Medicine |
This Only Happens in Sunny California Riverside California – CVS the Pharmacist Giant has had its shares of lawsuits and scandals that continue to pop-up in courts and on newspaper stands all around the globe. This is a true story that happened to a Black patient that...