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 highest esteem. But thanks to the government’s inability to stop the flow of illegal drugs, they flipped the attacks on doctors in the 1990’s. “Go where the money is and the guns aren’t” as one former US Attorney explains it. The compassionate, independent physician working for the good of the patient is slowly becoming a thing of the past. The doctor-patient relationship is shattered. People need to wake up and stop the government’s gravy train instead of feeding it. Learn the truth and get your legislators to create laws that the DOJ can’t reconstruct to their own benefit.

The “Marcus Welby” is Joel A. Smithers, DO, a 36 y/o solo family practitioner willing to take care of his patients—the perfect government target.

Dr. Smithers grew up in a medical family. As a child, he shadowed his veterinary father, seeing a real country doctor in action, doing what the patient needed. His internal policy was “Do for the patients what I would want to have done to me if I were in their shoes.” And his compassion and following the Hippocratic Oath got him a prison cell and ruined life.

Dr. Smithers’ practice started out in West Virginia. But due to the government’s intolerance toward opioids, West Virginia’s OHFLAC law regulated practices allowing no more than 50% of patients on controlled drugs. A local pain clinic was shut down because it wasn’t licensed. Dr. Smithers opened an urgent care office in Beckley. He was inundated with chronic pain patients that were in withdrawal from the shut-down clinic. So he moved to Virginia. His patients followed him there because of the lack of pain management available in West Virginia. But because having patients travel from another state is justification for the DEA to charge you with a crime, he immediately became a target. This is one of the outcomes of allowing the DEA to peruse the Prescription Monitoring Programs in the states. They can target doctors simply by seeing that information, and picking the most likely to fold with a plea agreement.

The problem we are facing is rogue government agencies—the DEA and DOJ as prime examples—with an agenda to fund themselves through the hard work of good compassionate doctors. As explained in “The Criminalization of Medicine” by Ronald T. Libby (2008),

“The DEA’s logic is circular: Since pain patients are dependent on narcotics, and since narcotics are addictive, then pain patients are addicts. Therefore doctors, prescribing to addicts, some of which might be criminals, selling, or die from overdoses, are a “danger to public health and safety.”

Through this confabulated thought process, and the connection with media spewing the anti-opioid propaganda that opioids cause addiction to seal the conviction of any targeted doctor, the government has gotten away with the ruination of tens of thousands of good, compassionate doctors. Dr. Smithers is just the poster child for the illegal activity of the DOJ and the courts.

Dr. Smithers’ comments about his upcoming trial were “How can I be convicted when I haven’t done anything criminal?” A naïve belief in this country where justice is no longer a part of our government agenda. Instead, criminalizing innocent doctors for money is the agenda, and everyone involved in the trial, from the prosecutors to the judges sitting on the bench, to the public defenders assigned to “defend” the innocent collaborate together because they get to share in the take. The “criminals” in this country are those in the legal profession. They design the laws, then use the loopholes/interpretation to create crimes where there are no crimes. And for that, they get invitations to join larger, more prestigious law firms, higher government offices, and MONEY. The agencies splitting the take on this prosecution are: the Roanoke offices of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Tactical Diversion Squad; the Health and Human Services OIG, police departments of Bristol, Martinsville, Buena Vista, Roanoke and Roanoke County; sheriff’s offices of Henry County and Pittsylvania County; the Virginia State Police, and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Cagle Juhan, Randy Ramseyer and Zachary T. Lee.  The attacks on doctors is a very lucrative business for these agencies.

The 861 counts of “illegally prescribing Schedule II controlled substances” were to legitimate patients that, in many cases, were treated for over a year. The one patient who died, and he was charged with her death, had committed suicide. When Dr. Smithers determined, through pill counts or urine drug screens, that patients were possibly not legitimate, he discharged them. He conducted his clinic in a completely lawful manner. But that doesn’t stop the government from attacking you.

Then, as in most cases, the US Attorney used civil forfeiture to rob Dr. Smithers of all of his assets so he was forced to have a public defender. The public defender assigned to him was the farthest possible in the district, preventing him from going to his office to evaluate the discovery. Don Williams’ government-paid job anyway, wasn’t to defend Dr. Smithers, it was to talk him into a plea agreement. This continued up until the trial, and Mr. Williams never worked on a defense. He refused to use me as the expert witness, knowing that my testimony could completely open the jurors’ eyes to what the government is doing. He, the judges involved, and the prosecution collaborated to create the scenario in which Dr. Smithers had no chance in court.

Dr. Smithers was taken into custody at the end of his trial. The father of 4, with a 5th due in July, will be separated from his family for possibly the rest of his adult life unless we, the American people, do something. All because the government has basically brainwashed our citizens against pain management for their own monetary interests.

This type of government action is actually the cause of the increased opioid deaths and the increase in addiction, although there is NOT an “opioid crisis” as they try to paint. That is to further their cause with more attacks on physicians for their personal financial gain. It’s a shame when the prosecutors claim the doctor is “in it for the money” when in reality, that is the prosecutor’s reason for what they do. America has to wake up and stop these illegal attacks on doctors.

Addendum:

Dr. Smithers was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

To end these attacks, restore pain management, and provide compensation to all the families that have been destroyed by government overreach, we must get the Controlled Substance Act repealed.  Join Doctorsofcourage to get that done. Learn what we teach and spread the word.  NO DRUG CAUSES ADDICTION!! Let’s end the War on Drugs, Doctors and Pain Patients, end the black market, solve the southern border crisis, and restore proper pain management.  It CAN be done!                                     

Addendum:

I have failed in my mission to end these attacks on doctors and pain patients. Through John Bevere’s book The Bait of Satan, I have figured out why—my lack of forgiveness to those who attacked me. As in Mark 11: 24-26:

Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.

And when you do not do the will of the Father, you are estranged from him and he will ignore you.  So we all must forgive the agents who attacked us in order for things to be made right through any of our works.

Jesus said

“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”

But we cannot lay down our lives for God unless we know Him well enough to trust Him. We must have the assurance that He would never do anything to harm us. He always looks out for what He knows is in our best interest. As a nation, those of us suffering from these attacks must understand that we are serving as God’s messengers of love.  We must forgive those who persecute us and love them instead, following God’s will for us. Then and only then will we see fruits from our labor.

So I hope that everyone who has suffered from what happened to Dr. Smithers can trust the Lord, forgive those who have hurt you, and help bring this country back to the God-fearing country that our forefathers founded. Then, and only then, can you be a part of the effort to stop these attacks. I look forward to that day.

Linda Cheek, MD

About the Author Linda Cheek, MD

Linda Cheek is a teacher and disenfranchised medical doctor, turned activist, author, and speaker. A victim of prosecutorial misconduct and outright law-breaking of the government agencies DEA, DHHS, and DOJ, she hopes to be a part of exonerating all doctors illegally attacked through the Controlled Substance Act. She holds the key to success, as she can offset the government propaganda that drugs cause addiction with the truth: The REAL Cause of Drug Abuse.
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