by Linda Cheek, MD | Dec, Wed, 2022 | Convicted physician |
Steven Chun, MD, 59, a pain management physician in Sarasota. FL has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison and must also forfeit $278,900 for being a speaker for the pharmaceutical company Insys. Dr. Chun along with the Insys rep Daniel Tondre. 52,...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Mar, Fri, 2018 | Plea agreement |
Steven Holper, MD, 66, a PM & R (physical medicine & rehabilitation) pain management physician in Law Vegas, NV was charged Feb 13 with seven-counts of distribution of Fentanyl, and 22-counts of health care fraud relating to Subsys, a sublingual form of...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Fri, 2017 | Plea agreement |
Jerrold Rosenberg, MD, 62, a board-certified physiatrist in North Providence, RI is another physician who has been charged with a crime where there is no crime. Physiatry, or physical medicine and rehabilitation is a specialized branch of medicine treating pain from...
by Linda Cheek, MD | May, Wed, 2017 | Plea agreement |
Can we ever believe anything the government charges a pain management physician with? I don’t think so. Here is a case of a doctor being charged with schemes involving kickbacks for patient referrals and tax evasion. Manoj Patharkar, MD 45, was a Physiatrist (Physical...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Sep, Fri, 2016 | Plea agreement |
It’s always with mixed emotion when a person learns that their predictions of government evil have started to become reality. And so I write this post, with the egotistic “I told you so”, but wishing that it wasn’t so, and hoping that this will not become the next...