On July 30, ABC affiliate KTRK-TV in Texarkana dredged up old news and presented it again on the air to further spread propaganda against 4 minority physicians in the Houston area. They basically used the same reporting from Nov, 2019, when the doctors were arrested and charged. The “reporter” was Mycah Hatfield. Her report was filled with lies, propaganda and innuendos, and needs to be corrected and she should be fired, along with the director who gave her that assignment for obvious propaganda purposes.

The DA’s office received federal grant funding in October 2018 of more than $350,000 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance in order to investigate and prosecute “prescription drug diversion” (which means doctors they can target) in the county. This allowed them to hire an investigator specifically for targeting doctors. So they use the PDMP with data on overdose deaths, overdose hospitalizations and other reports from the Department of Public Safety to target doctors, primarily minority.

So what was the point of reporting this old news? My guess is that they are in cahoots with the government, showing how they can force innocent physicians into copping pleas of wrongdoing by illegally influencing the jury pool.

The doctors were identified as:

1.  Miguel Flores, MD of Conroe, TX
2. Fadi Ghanem, MD of Woodlands, TX
3. Hussamaddin Al-Khadour, MD of Houston, TX
4. Emad Bishai, MD of Conroe, TX

The four doctors’ offices were raided on June 26, 2019. They were all arrested on 11/4/19.

Miguel Juan Flores, MD

Miguel Juan Flores, MD, is a family medicine doctor. Born in Mexico, he graduated from medical school from UT Health Science Center in San Antonio. (The medical school I graduated from.) He has practiced all of his 37 years in Texas. Dr. Flores was charged with one count of committing unprofessional or dishonorable conduct by prescribing to a person who Dr. Flores knew or should have known was an abuser of controlled substances and one count for prescribing without a valid medical purpose. The Texas BoM temporarily restricted his license without notice on July 10, 2020 (within a week of the raid). He cannot prescribe controlled substances or treat chronic pain patients, forcing all those patients to the street for self-treatment. This sudden stopping of appropriate medication by the Boards of Medicine needs to be taken to court by those harmed. Doctors and patients both need to sue the members of the Boards of Medicine that are doing this for political purposes.

Dr. Fadi Ghanem, MD

Dr. Fadi Ghanem, MD is a family medicine doctor. He graduated from medical school in Beirut, Lebanon and did his residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. He has practiced in Texas for 26 years. Dr. Ghanem was arrested and charged with three counts of committing unprofessional or dishonorable conduct by prescribing to a person who Dr.Ghanem knew or should have known was an abuser of controlled substances and three counts of prescribing without a valid medical purpose.
He has received verbal, physical and monetary support for his legal defense from his patients, which shows the kind of doctor he is—not a criminal. Comments like
“You have a heart for all the patients you have treated and you wouldn’t hurt anyone. Trust God and we are praying for you!” and
“This physician cares for his patients.”
“Thanks Dr.Ghanem for your care for me and my family over the course of 23-24 years.”
“He wasn’t just a GREAT medical doctor he was a counselor, an advisor, a teacher and a friend every time he was needed. He deserves nothing but the best! This is so unfair!”
“I believe in Dr G. He is the best doctor I have ever seen. He is caring and very compassionate. I have seen him for 20 years.”
But in cahoots with the DOJ, the Texas Medical Board suspended Dr. Ghanem’s medical license without notice on November 14, 2019 with the reason of a “threat to public welfare”. Medical Boards are the actual threat to public welfare, not the doctors being attacked.

Emad Bishai, MD

Emad Bishai, MD is a 48 y/o integrative psychiatry doctor who practices in Conroe, TX. He was born in Egypt, graduated from Cairo University Medical School in 1995, did his residency in psychiatry in Brooklyn, NY and a fellowship in Anesthesia Pain Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He has practiced in the US for 17 years, 7 in Texas. Dr. Bishai was charged with four counts of committing unprofessional or dishonorable conduct by prescribing to a person who Dr. Bishai knew or should have known was an abuser of controlled substances and four counts of prescribing without a valid medical purpose.
His license was suspended by the Board of Medicine Nov 18, 2019. It was reinstated on Mar 6, 2020, but with a consent agreement that he doesn’t prescribe controlled substances. His office building was seized by the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office in a civil asset forfeiture suit for being used in the commission of or acquired with proceeds from engaging in organized criminal activity. Calling legitimate medicine “organized crime” is how the DOJ is using laws outside of their intended purposes against doctors for money. This has got to stop by legislative action.
When Dr. Bishai appeared in court the first time, over 100 patients were there cheering him on. Most were current patients who claimed Dr. Bishai had changed their lives for the better. And the patients that the government was blaming Dr. Bishai for their deaths, most had other drugs in their system that Dr. Bishai did not prescribe.
Interesting how only pain management physicians get charged with a crime with a patient of theirs dies. How many cardiologists have had patients die? Or even allergy specialists? Are they being charged? No. But the government can confiscate the assets of pain management physicians by the illegal use of the Controlled Substance Act, the racketeering (RICO) and civil asset forfeiture laws. This has become the MO of the DOJ since 1999 after being raked over the coals by Congress for not “bringing home the bacon” in illegal drug cases. The DOJ declared legal prescription drugs equal to heroin, and chose to go “where the money is and the guns aren’t”—i.e. doctors’ offices. Since that time, thousands of doctors have had their lives ruined, and hundreds have spent years in prison cells, 250 of which are sitting in a cell right now, exposed to coronavirus daily. Most of those doctors (the list is available HERE), are minority. Are you beginning to see the picture?
Judge Hamilton has set a bench trial for Dr. Bishai September 8, 2020, on all nine charges. The charges he is facing are 5-counts of practicing medicine in violation of subtitle 3, and 4-counts of prescribing controlled substance other than medical purpose. This is probably the reason for the sloppy propaganda reporting by ABC.

Dr. Hussamaddin Al-Khadour, MD

Dr. Hussamaddin Al-Khadour, MD is an internist in Houston,TX. He was born in Syria, graduated from medical school in Damascus and did his residency at SUNY-HSC in Brooklyn, NY. He has worked in the US for 19 years, 16 of those in Texas. Dr. Al-Khadour was charged with one count of operating a pain management clinic without being properly registered, even though his practice was internal medicine, not pain management, and one count for writing a false or fictitious prescription.

Conclusion
I have been pointing out for years now that there is a method being used in this country with hospital and government collusion against minority physicians. This case is a perfect example of what I suspect. Only as time goes on, we will see these foreign-born physicians being attacked much sooner. Here is what I suspect:

1. Medical schools bring in foreign-born students to use in hospitals as slave labor. This continues through their residency programs.

2. Then as soon as they establish a practice in the US, they are attacked, criminalized, and put in prison. All of their assets are forfeited, and the government uses tax dollars to support the prison system.

3.  This then becomes a revolving wheel. Wake up, America, and stop this discrimination.