The doctor is on trial for first-degree murder after his patient dies from snorting the Oxycontin he prescribed
Another reason to refer pain management cases out to specialists.
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Hmm. Looks like he WAS a pain management doctor, at least unofficially.
There must be more to this story.
GruntDoc
Are you aware of this case?
http://www.weitzelcharts.com/
Doctors DO get prosecuted criminally for good-faith prescription of opiates.
All that being said, I don’t know anything about this Florida doc.
Weitzel got covered on “60 Minutes” Ed Bradley interviewed the “nurse/attorney” who prosecuted the case.
Nurse/attorney is always a dangerous combination. A little bit of medical knowledge and the law degree to do a lot of damage.
See her on “60 Minutes” telling Ed Bradley that old people don’t feel pain like younger people do. That old people don’t need pain medicines for this reason, and therefore, the only reason Weitzel could have for prescribing pain medicine for elderly patients was to kill them like Jack Kevorkian.
So……doctors DO get prosecuted unjustly for good-faith opiate prescription.
Or this story:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=90000445
One more:
http://www.painandthelaw.org/aslme_content/26-4c/alpers.pdf
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