Steven Chun, MD

Steven Chun, MD

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,...
Steven Holper, MD

Steven Holper, MD

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...
Jerrold N. Rosenberg, MD

Jerrold N. Rosenberg, MD

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...
Manoj Patharkar, MD

Manoj Patharkar, MD

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...
Jeff Pearlman, drug rep

Jeff Pearlman, drug rep

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...