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To: TimF who wrote (782665)	4/29/2014 4:34:51 PM
From: i-node	of 1577188

>> I understand that just from doing their job they can sometimes get in trouble with the government. I had one I worked with about 15-20 years ago who was out of control. The last time I went in their office, employees were asleep (or whatever) on the sofa and in the chair in his office, there was an empty pizza box in the hall, and actual pizza on the floor of the office. It was chaos. Protected Health Information documents were all over the office, piled in the hallways. It was ridiculous. The office manager called me later and I gave her a referral to a bankruptcy attorney. That was the last I heard from them until another interventional pain doctor told me what had happened. The office manager (not a medical professional) had refilled a pain pump for someone in a Walmart parking lot and the patient died. She was facing charges. The doctor was convicted of Medicare fraud in connection with filing claims for drugs that had not been used. Today, he's cheerfully back in business in the same town. If you check the "healthgrades" websites -- any of them -- there is no reference to his suspension for fraud or for allowing the office manager to refill pumps in parking lots or any of that. In fact, most of the reviews are positive save for a couple who had read the newspaper articles about him. I have worked with a number of pain clinics over the years. I'm not convinced they're consistently very good, but I have worked with some who seemed to me to have an excellent awareness of the risk associated with the treatments they deliver. What is needed, though, is a LOT more addiction medicine specialists who are a LOT more accessible to the public.

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