republished from youarewithinthenorms.com
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HONORING DR. Ron V. Myers, MD., FATHER OF AMERICA’S JUNETEETH AND PAIN CARE ADVOCATE
REV. RONALD MYERS, MD, AN AMERICAN HERO
Dr. Ronald Myers was a leading advocate for health care to the poor and disenfranchised. The founder and chairman of The American Pain Institute and the Myers Foundation for Indigent Health Care and Community Development.
A 1985 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Medical School and a resident in Family Practice at L.S.U. At the Medical Center, Doc Myers was a leading national advocate for health care to the poor and disenfranchised. In 1990, he became the first ordained and commissioned medical missionary in the history of the African American church to serve in America’s poorest region, the Mississippi Delta. Dr. Myers provided health care to the poorest Americans through clinics in Tchula, Belzoni, Yazoo City, Indianola, Greenville, and Tupelo, Mississippi. He went on a mission outreach to Kenya and Israel.
EASY ENFORCEMENT TARGETS
Yet in the eyes of the United States, Drug Enforcement Agency and the Department (DEA), this brilliant medical clinician was another uppidity-arrogant N-word who needed to be taught a lesson, criminalized, and imprisoned. Listen to this 2017 interview with Linda Cheeks, MD., from “Doctors with Courage,” of our hero Ronald Myers, MD.
Further, DEA specifically preys upon the practitioners of colors, especially older practitioners of both races as they are deemed likely to be more property-rich. This allows DEA to seize larger, more valuable assets from their victims, and it is further assumed these practitioners are less likely to fight back, making them easier enforcement targets.
WHITE RAGE:
Most importantly, the areas in the United States which have sustained the highest deaths of African American deaths from COVID are ironically nearly the exact same areas of the country where physicians, pharmacists, dentists, and healthcare providers of color have been targeted by DEA-DOJ and have been removed.
*Angela Greene’s book, ” Legalized Extortion,” alleges that significant racial disparities exist in how federal agencies, specifically the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), conduct medical enforcement and asset seizures. These allegations include: Targeting Practitioners of Color: her sources claim the DEA specifically “preys upon” medical practitioners of color. This targeting is reportedly based on the assumption that these practitioners are “less likely to fight back,” making them “easy enforcement targets”.
LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF RONALD MYERS MD IN THIS INTERVIEW FROM PAIN PATIENT ADVOCACY WEEK IN 2017
WITH LINDA CHEEKS MD
Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., MD was a family practitioner in Mississippi. He lost his license because of attacks on him by the state of Oklahoma. The charges were dropped, but his license was never restored to active status because of fines levied on him by the Board of Medicine for the unfounded investigation they led against him. In other words, “Pay us for attacking you without just cause.”
Pain Patient Advocacy Week
Doc Myers led his last Pain Patient Advocacy Week in Washington, DC on April 23-30, 2018. He wasn’t feeling up to par when he came to Washington, but he used all the energy he had to lead the movement. Possibly because of that self-sacrifice, he did not have the reserves when he returned home, and his health deteriorated over the next few months. He is truly a martyr to the cause, and Chronic Pain Patients should lift him up forever for the support he gave.
If you would like to leave a tribute to Doc, please leave a comment below. Eventually, this segment will be moved to Doc’s own page as an ambassador on the membership site.
‘The Three Pillars of Prosecutorial Overreach’ featuring three columns labeled ‘Criminalization of Clinical Subjectivity,’ ‘Erasure of the Civil-Criminal Distinction,’ and ‘Bypass of Professional Governance.’ Each column outlines a key concept and includes a brief explanation.
GHANA BOY
Incurable disabled activists have a new and most welcome advocate Ghanaboy PharmD (will respect his anonymity by using his handle). His YouTube videos are informative, enlightening, educational, and deeply personal.
There is one in particular that caught my attention regarding the most loathed document in American history — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines. Flaws highlighted in his excellent video are the low-tier evidence scores and the core expert group having only one “pain expert” who no longer practices medicine. These suggestions are now being weaponized by all sectors, public and private, because the law was constructed to an academic standard barely acceptable for a college thesis. Suggestions have always been the keyword.
Pain Management
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
INSIDE THE SYSTEM: A CHRONIC PAIN DOCTOR SPEAKS
https://www.cpcs.support/the-pain-pod/2021/4/21/inside-the-system-a-chronic-pain-doctor-speaks
Dr. Jovey originally trained and worked as a family physician. He has treated patients with chronic non-cancer pain in an outpatient practice for over 30 years. He has presented educational workshops and seminars on chronic pain management to health care professionals in Canada and internationally. Since 2005, he has served as Medical Director at CPMn Management, which became NeuPath Center for Pain and Spine in 2021, the largest outpatient chronic pain management organization in Canada.
He served as a staff physician at the Michael G. DeGroote Pain Clinic at Hamilton Health Sciences Center in Hamilton from 2017 to 2021. In 2017, he was a member of the Canadian Opioid Guideline Panel. He is a Past-President of the Canadian Pain Society, a medico-legal expert for the Canadian Medical Protective Association, and a provincial Coroner.
BLACK PATIENTS DESCRIBE IN HOW PHARMACIES PROFILE THEM WHEN GETTING PRESCRIPTION PAIN MEDICATIONS
Thank You,
Dr. Linda Cheek, MD and Julie Killingsworth
NOW FEEL OUR PAIN
MICHAEL SEARS/MSEARS@JOURNALSENTINEL.COM
FOR NOW, YOU ARE
WITHIN
THE NORMS
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Without a thought, the doctor gave them his aid, one after the other, and each mouse he healed was grateful. Soon, however, he began to tire and eventually became exhausted, yet more mice kept coming. “Surely, though, this deed will be worth it in the end,” he thought, and strengthened his resolve.
legalize extortion
* Angela Greene’s book, ” Legalized Extortion,” alleges that significant racial disparities exist in how federal agencies, specifically the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), conduct medical enforcement and asset seizures. These allegations include:
- Targeting Practitioners of Color: The sources claim the DEA specifically “preys upon” medical practitioners of color. This targeting is reportedly based on the assumption that these practitioners are “less likely to fight back,” making them “easy enforcement targets”.
- Asset Seizure as a Motivator: Enforcement actions are often allegedly directed at older practitioners of color because they are deemed “property-rich”. This allows the government to seize “larger more valuable assets” from these individuals.
- Unfounded Investigations and Fines: Dr. Ronald Myers is cited as an example of a physician who lost his license due to an “unfounded investigation”. Even after charges were dropped, his license remained inactive because he was required to pay fines levied by the Board of Medicine to cover the costs of the investigation against him.
- Correlation with Public Health Crisis: There is a noted correlation between the removal of physicians, pharmacists, and dentists of color by the DEA and Department of Justice (DOJ) and areas with the highest rates of African American deaths from COVID-19. This suggests that targeting minority providers creates healthcare vacuums in vulnerable communities.
- Patient Profiling: The sources also highlight reports from Black patients who describe being profiled at pharmacies when attempting to fill legitimate prescriptions for pain medications.
These actions are framed as part of a broader systemic issue where biased enforcement policies and the weaponization of “low-tier evidence,” such as the CDC Prescription Guidelines, are used to criminalize minority healthcare providers.
