Pain management suffers a setback when physician William Hurwitz was convicted. John Tierney looks at the verdict:
I can’t blame the jurors for being confused, because that’s the norm in trials of pain-management doctors. The standard prosecution strategy is to charge the doctor on so many counts and introduce so much evidence that the jurors assume something criminal must have happened. Their natural impulse, after listening to weeks of arguments, is to look for a compromise by digging into the mountain of medical minutiae ““ and getting in so deep that they lose sight of the big picture.
(via Overlawyered)
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I hope and pray that I never need opiates for chronic pain management, because they are going to be hell to get from any legitimate source.
On the other hand, why is my state awash is “pain clinics” that dispense Holy Trinity meds for cash payments and superfician 90 second vists? Why aren’t they prosecuting those guys? Or at least suing them to recoup the money the state spends detoxing their “patients”. A nurse operating a pain clinic here had millions in cash stashed in her house when they finally arrested her–many many times what Dr. Hurwitz had earned.
When juries find for corp defendants (ie. people insured), Overlawyered thinks they got it just right. When they don’t, they’re morons. This is newsworthy why?
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