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BACKGROUND
In 2019, a group of Black Pharmacy Owners found themselves under racist attack by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). They organized together with a diverse group of Black Scholars into a Think Tank called the North Star Pharmacy Group.
They began identifying and exposing systemic racial drug policies and injustices in healthcare delivery policies within both DEA/DOJ. They’ve further exposed racial targeting of black-owned pharmacy businesses and physicians of color.
They found white older healthcare providers were targeted based on assets by DEA/DOJ; there is a demand for Congress to ACT to investigate this agency.
They created the blog youarewithinthenorms.com, which has identified these injustices occurring in all races and genders throughout America.
READ https://youarewithinthenorms.com/2021/02/20/the-raid-on-pronto-pharmacy-review-of-the-deas-search-warrant-and-raid-august-29-2019/. This is happening all over America
FOR NOW, YOU ARE WITHIN
THE NORMS
REFERENCES:
INSIDE THE ISSUES WITH WILMER LEON #3
INSIDE THE ISSUES WITH WILMER LEON #2
to Angela Green producer for Jaundolyn Stokes’ Show. Dear Angela:
MarkIbsenMD here
I listened to the audacious Audacy show today.
Outstanding presentation of a highly complex issue,
And passion was certainly present.
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2020/5/25/pain-warriors-a-civil-rights-movement-for-our-time
No doubt injustice happens to all, and more often to black and brown patients and doctors.
I’m not black,
Which is an asset in this conversation, as I have come face to face,
With LOSS of my privilege,
Due to violations of my due process rights during my battle against the Montana board of medicine.
I developed an interest in medicine early,with my first “doctor kit” at around age 7.
I noticed immediately that the plastic items in my medical kit were useless, and I had no idea how I would use them. So I went back to dreaming about being a fireman or a professional football player. Sports seem to be the venue where I thrived the most.
My family was interested in competitive swimming, and I was on swim team when I was age 8.
Football wrestling track, baseball and swimming consumed my attention and used up my intensity. My first injury was a concussion while playing catcher. My first back injury was a vertebral process fracture in a football collision when I was 12.
I continue to thrive in academics, as well as sports, attended Williams College in Massachusetts became a chemistry major and took up lacrosse and squash. Also, long distance running.
I applied to medical school after my third year of college in remarkably I got in! I attended Washington University in St. Louis and graduated in 1980, paid for by national health service corps dollars. wireless student I participated with my mentor Tom Dew, helping him help serve the poor at the People’s clinic.
I was matriculated to a family practice residency at the University of Utah and Salt Lake City. At that time my dream was to become a family doctor, and do all things for all people, a “Marcus Welby model”
I served in a health manpower shortage area to repay my government loans.
I gained considerable emergency department experience, and chose to stay in Emergency Medicine, and I grandfathered into that specialty through the Practice portal.
I saw about 200,000 patients during my emergency medicine and urgent care career.
I also traveled to Nepal, Mexico, Europe, Bermuda, and India. I was blessed to be able to volunteer with Mother Teresa of Calcutta in Kolkata.
In 2012, patients started coming in who had been abandoned by their doctor.
These patients were in withdrawal.
I treated them not as pain patients, but his patients in withdrawal and “pain refugees”.
We made a movie about it:
Pain Warriors: A Civil Rights Movement for Our Time
painnewsnetwork.org
The numbers of patients who came to see me became a flood, and I was able to wean 80% of these patients off of their opiates using alternative techniques.
However, 20% could not wean and no one would accept them.
When I tried to wean them, they began to die before my eyes. And since no one would take them, I couldn’t discharge them for my practice without feeling like I had abandoned them.
Ultimately, Dr. Chris Christiansen was convicted of multiple felonies for treating patients like this. This conviction came down in 2017 and because of the hostile regulatory environment I retired from prescribing any opiate pain medication. My clinic was driven into closure in 2015.
Meanwhile, the board of medicine accused me of over prescribing I spent several hundred thousand dollars defending my license and ultimately proved that I did not over prescribe. The damage was done however, I used up all my savings, and have practiced in refugee medicine in several hotspots around the world since then. I also have support myself financially by doing cannabis recommendations for patients in the medical marijuana program.
I am now free of any probation or restrictions on my license, and during the time of my difficulty with the board of medicine, I travel overseas to serve, poor and refugee patients in Zanskar India, under the Dalai Lama, and two trips to the island of Lesbos and Samos in Greece, serving Syrian and African refugees.
Here’s the thing about refugees :they’ve lost everything.
Here’s the thing about poor agrarian Tibetan Buddhists living at 14,000 feet in the air and Himalayas: they never had anything.
And each of these venues, I was able to serve people who had a language barrier, very little medical support, such as lab work, etc. who were seeking something from me, as part of an ashram or humanitarian organization. Most of the time there’s very little medical testing, very little communication, and lots of desperation.
I learned of the way to deal with refugees and the poor is to realize that they’ve been told NO, a great deal,
So I became somewhat of a medical comic, connecting with my smile in my eyes.
The only way to do this successfully is by acknowledgment: get into what is so, expressing what is so, and listening for an reliably, delivering that which might make a difference, even if I think I have nothing to give .
I am now finding myself pulled back to the pain refugee conversation. It may be chaotic and terrifying, but I see myself as someone who has the training and heart to encounter this massive problem and restore the sacred physician. Patient relationship if I can.
And if I can’t, I can rest easy, knowing I served as many starfish on the beach as I could. .
See my video in this recent Cato Article:
https://www.cato.org/study/cops-practicing-medicine
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