Comments on: The sad plight of William Hurwitz http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/03/sad-plight-of-william-hurwitz.html medical blog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:56:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/03/sad-plight-of-william-hurwitz.html/comment-page-1#comment-87059 Anonymous Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:59:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/03/the-sad-plight-of-william-hurwitz.html#comment-87059 Bottom line - Hurwitz broke no law. Yet he was locked up for years. No one . . NO ONE . . knows what he is in Jail for !! The Prosecutors found no "collusion" with the Patients who sold their pills. The only reason I have ever seen was a bizarre charge of "Practicing improper medicine". What in the world is that? There is no law that defines "proper medicine". A man is in prison who was not found guilty of breaking any law. Bottom line – Hurwitz broke no law. Yet he was locked up for years. No one . . NO ONE . . knows what he is in Jail for !! The Prosecutors found no “collusion” with the Patients who sold their pills. The only reason I have ever seen was a bizarre charge of “Practicing improper medicine”. What in the world is that? There is no law that defines “proper medicine”. A man is in prison who was not found guilty of breaking any law.

]]> By: eric http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/03/sad-plight-of-william-hurwitz.html/comment-page-1#comment-82724 eric Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:44:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/03/the-sad-plight-of-william-hurwitz.html#comment-82724 The moron physician who wrote about pharmacists "ratting out" doctors to the DEA is absolutely wrong. <br/><br/>Most doctors who over prescribe narcotics do so because it is a fast and lucrative way to build their practices. Drug addicts and traffickers make excellent "patients" who return every month and never miss appointments.<br/><br/>As for the comment that generic narcotic drugs are not much profit, please take a business class, you buy a generic bottle of vicodin 5 mg for $22.00/500 count and sell 40<br/>tablets for $30.00. Generic drugs are where the profits lay. Whether you are selling car tires, toilet paper or drugs the same concept applies: the cheaper the product the higher your profit margin.<br/><br/>Please idiot physicians take a business course and get your facts right.<br/><br/>The Angry Pharmacist The moron physician who wrote about pharmacists “ratting out” doctors to the DEA is absolutely wrong.

Most doctors who over prescribe narcotics do so because it is a fast and lucrative way to build their practices. Drug addicts and traffickers make excellent “patients” who return every month and never miss appointments.

As for the comment that generic narcotic drugs are not much profit, please take a business class, you buy a generic bottle of vicodin 5 mg for $22.00/500 count and sell 40
tablets for $30.00. Generic drugs are where the profits lay. Whether you are selling car tires, toilet paper or drugs the same concept applies: the cheaper the product the higher your profit margin.

Please idiot physicians take a business course and get your facts right.

The Angry Pharmacist

]]> By: Bill http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/03/sad-plight-of-william-hurwitz.html/comment-page-1#comment-73447 Bill Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:04:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/03/the-sad-plight-of-william-hurwitz.html#comment-73447 Who would you rather have write your prescriptions? Your doctor or the police? Who would you rather have write your prescriptions? Your doctor or the police?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/03/sad-plight-of-william-hurwitz.html/comment-page-1#comment-73358 Anonymous Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:44:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/03/the-sad-plight-of-william-hurwitz.html#comment-73358 Has anyone considered the CRUSADING PHARMACISTS who truly believe they are extension agents of the DEA?<br/><br/>These pharmacists were not even in the examination room with the patient[s], yet they make conclusions and judgements about doctors' prescriptions of controlled substances, and actually rat out on their community physicians to the DEA!<br/><br/>You haven't known one pharmacist like this? I've worked with a few...and they dispense the prescriptions anyway as it impacts their customer service bottomline [not too much profit on narcotics, esp. generics] But they rat out the doctors and play hero to the DEA. Certainly not a hero to the legitimate chronic pain patient... Has anyone considered the CRUSADING PHARMACISTS who truly believe they are extension agents of the DEA?

These pharmacists were not even in the examination room with the patient[s], yet they make conclusions and judgements about doctors’ prescriptions of controlled substances, and actually rat out on their community physicians to the DEA!

You haven’t known one pharmacist like this? I’ve worked with a few…and they dispense the prescriptions anyway as it impacts their customer service bottomline [not too much profit on narcotics, esp. generics] But they rat out the doctors and play hero to the DEA. Certainly not a hero to the legitimate chronic pain patient…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/03/sad-plight-of-william-hurwitz.html/comment-page-1#comment-73320 Anonymous Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:22:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/03/the-sad-plight-of-william-hurwitz.html#comment-73320 Poor practice style is not, except in dictatorial tyrannies, grounds for imprisonment. It is grounds for being made to find another means of financial sustenance. Poor practice style is not, except in dictatorial tyrannies, grounds for imprisonment. It is grounds for being made to find another means of financial sustenance.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/03/sad-plight-of-william-hurwitz.html/comment-page-1#comment-73311 Anonymous Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:27:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/03/the-sad-plight-of-william-hurwitz.html#comment-73311 Dr Hurwitz is a physician who has had multiple reputable pain physicians review his charts trying to defend him. They almost all end up finding his practice indefensable. This began with the Va State Board and has continued into Federal Court. After his last trial a panel session at the Amer Board of Pain Medicine meeting included one of his trial experts. He stated that he couldn't actually support Hurwitz's practice. He was only defending him because he was afraid of the slippery slope. Dr Hurwitz has stated that his goal is to have the drug laws in the country revoked by the courts. He is using reputable pain MDs to support his poor practice style. Of course that is what defense lawyers are supposed to do.<br/><br/>MD JD Dr Hurwitz is a physician who has had multiple reputable pain physicians review his charts trying to defend him. They almost all end up finding his practice indefensable. This began with the Va State Board and has continued into Federal Court. After his last trial a panel session at the Amer Board of Pain Medicine meeting included one of his trial experts. He stated that he couldn’t actually support Hurwitz’s practice. He was only defending him because he was afraid of the slippery slope. Dr Hurwitz has stated that his goal is to have the drug laws in the country revoked by the courts. He is using reputable pain MDs to support his poor practice style. Of course that is what defense lawyers are supposed to do.

MD JD

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