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Selling narcotics in the parking lot, a subtlety fail for this doctor

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Brazen or desperate?

A family doctor was prescribing narcotics from his car, parked at various pharmacy parking lots.

Perhaps he was taking “customer service” to a new level.

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Payne Hertz
Don’t laugh, I know of at least one doctor who used to write scripts from his car, and another from a different area who used to employ a runner to deliver scripts to his customer’s mailboxes by car. Sadly, many people with legitimate chronic pain that I knew were forced to use the services of these guys, even for trivial amounts of narcotics, because they couldn’t get a “legitimate” doctor to treat their pain.
While I am sure doctors like this service quite a few addicts, I would venture a guess the majority of their clients are legitimate chronic pain patients, forced into an illegitimate arrangement to get pain relief. These doctors often charge cash retainers of from $250 to $500 a month, and with 1,000 clients that adds up to $6 million in cash revenue every year. Surely better than any street dealer could do.

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