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A PHYSICIANS STORY AN AMERICAN HEALTHCARE DILEMMA OF MEDICAL SCIENCE AND LAW
“..Today, as we confront the challenges of our time, another form of devastation threatens to engulf our society—the erosion of trust and integrity in the field of medicine. This insidious process, which we call the “Tulsafication” of medicine, fueled by policies and attitudes that undermines the fundamental principles of healthcare and perpetuate disparities in access and quality of care..”
neil anand, md
Now it’s clear to anyone that would look into the matter that their “evidence” that prescription opioids caused the increased opioid deaths is fraudulent.
However, the DEA, DOJ’s credibility and honor are now at stake and any admission of guilt is dangerous for those responsible for the execution of these policies.”
According to Steve Ariens of Pharmaciststeve.com,
” I think if you consider the video – as a whole – these Federal prosecutors’ end goal was criminal/civil asset of a prescriber’s assets. that is “free money” that these Feds can put in their dept’s coffers to use/spend as they wish…
…It was indicated that this was in 2019, I wonder if these Federal prosecutors are still going after prescribers, since the number of poisoning/ODing from illegal Fentanyl from China & Mexican cartels have probably doubled since then. Maybe it is too difficult to confiscate assets of these criminals that are “off-shore”?
DISCUSSION
I searched my calendar to see how I could reschedule patients so as to help my friend keep her practice alive until she could retain counsel and defend herself to the board.
While I was doing this, my receptionist told me that a sheriff’s deputy wanted to see me.
A cold feeling came over me, and I woodenly shook his hand and accepted the envelope he handed me. Inside was my emergency order of suspension from the medical board.
It turned out that a disgruntled former employee had called an insurance company pretending to be a patient and had complained that I was “treating addicts.”
THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH THE MASS SUICIDES OF CHRONIC PAIN CARE PATIENTS AND MANY WAR VETERANS DENIED TREATMENT DIRECTLY CAUSE BY THE D.E.A. AND PROSECTUTORS
The insurance investigated and found that some patients had died within thirty days of being treated by us. Since we saw all of our patients every thirty days, this would be the case no matter why they had died.
It turns out that, today, any patient who dies while taking opiates is listed as an “opiate-associated” death. Even if they die in a hospice or shoot themselves. I even had a patient who died in police custody twenty hours after last taking his medications and after being denied proper medical care. The jail told his family he had died of an overdose, despite the coroner finding on autopsy that he died from a cardiac condition.
DEA LAW ENFORCEMENT UNDERMINING HEALTHCARE FOR ALL
The insurance company’s investigation found that our treatment was reasonable, but they felt they had to notify the medical board. The medical board felt they had to issue an emergency order of suspension without giving me a chance to defend my practice. When I finally went in front of them, the suspension of my license was lifted, and I thought the ordeal was over.
Instead, law enforcement officers went on the news to say that the board had been too easy on me, and I was indicted that same day.
I did not plead guilty but took it to trial. The government wanted to give me twenty to life for the patient who died in police custody. I took the stand in my defense and tried to help the jury understand the complications of medical practice and the risks and benefits of opiate therapy.
I explained that I was certified to treat addiction and that while my patients on opiate therapy did not have addiction, even if they did, the benefits of treatment could outweigh the risks.
The government’s expert testified that MRIs were not objective, that a veteran treated with methadone for pain meant he had an addiction, and that a man with a hand crushed so badly that a finger was pulled off did not have “real” pain and should not have been treated.
The fact that I had cut him back from three opiates to two and from two benzodiazepines to one on that first visit went right over the jury’s heads. As well as the fact that I had reduced his opiates sixty days and his benzodiazepines thirty days before his death.
The government’s expert testified that when my chart notes referenced my concern about the potential for addiction, this was absolute proof that the patient HAD an addiction.
The prosecutor told the jury in closing that we only accepted patients already on opiates because it was easier to get them addicted. None of these statements are true, but I was shocked that you couldn’t use the textbook in your defense. You also cannot use the content of your CME in your defense.
You have to rely on experts, most of whom are now too terrified to testify for the defense, and the government can have their witnesses make statements completely contrary to the scientific practice of medicine.
I was found not responsible for the death but convicted for treating the patient at all, as I had placed him “at risk” of addiction. I was also convicted for treating the veteran who had been prescribed methadone, despite him testifying that I was a compassionate doctor who had always tried to help him reduce the opiate medications he came to me on.
CONCLUSION
I am waiting for sentencing and looking at up to twenty years in prison. If I could offer any word of advice, it would be for all primary care physicians to stop treating pain until this insanity is rectified, as it is impossible to educate a jury in a week.
There is no limit to what the government can say to get a conviction. They are not bound by truth or science. Also, if you come under prosecution, hire only a healthcare prosecution specialized attorney; do not trust that any other attorney will understand things well enough to defend you adequately.
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