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Concerns about Medical Boards

27 Friday Feb 2015

Posted by US Legal Research in doctors, Health Care, Justice, Regulations, war on drugs

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AAPS, Alen Salerian, AMA, Cato Institute, criminalization, criminals, DC, DEA, doctors, Gene Healy, healthcare fraud, Jackson Healthcare, licensing, Marion Stahl, medical boards, Nancy Dickey MD, Oklahoma, physicians, revoking licensing, Richard L. Jackson, suicide, The Monster Chase, war on drugs, washington

We are publishing an article on the subject of medical boards. We will be investigating this topic closely and are welcoming public contributions as part of this process. We encourage providers or patients who have been harmed by such measures to help bring them to light. If you know of anyone harmed, please report it to US Legal Research. To contact your state representative regarding this topic, please visit UsLegalResearch.org.

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Is our country really plagued by an abundance of bad doctors?

By Marion A. Stahl

An alarming amount of war stories seem to be floating around the news lately regarding bizarre medical board actions, physicians being jailed, and even physicians committing suicide. In response to this trend, we resolved to conduct a close investigation to identify the patterns among various states. While this phenomenon is by no means new, it does seem to have reached epidemic proportions in the past year, causing great harm to patients as well.

In the last ten years, an estimated 20,000 physicians have been sentenced for crimes ranging from drug dealing felonies to fraud and racketeering. Is it truly possible that our country has so many bad doctors, or have our state medical boards gone out of control as a result of governmental pressure? Continue reading →

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Asset Forfeitures

30 Friday Jan 2015

Posted by US Legal Research in Justice, war on drugs

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Attorney General Holder Has Made It Harder for Federal Government to Legally Seize Your Property, By Jason Snead the Daily Signal

Chronicle AM: Boehner Not Eager to Mess With DC, NE AG Explains Lawsuit, Forfeiture Pressure, More (1/28/15) by psmith, January 28, 2015, 05:46pm, (Issue #871)

Washington Post article by Robert O’Harrow Jr on January 28, 2015- addressing bipartisan bills in both houses of Congress to alter the nation’s civil asset forfeiture laws.

ACLU and NACDL supporting the proposed changes of civil asset forfeiture laws.

Senators Ron Paul( R-KY) Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Charles E Grassley (R-IOWA) James Sensenbrenner Jr (R-wis) Tim Walberg(R-MICH) introducing the first amendment integrity restoration act or fair act to scrutinize the proof needed to make a seizure and abolish equitable sharing. 1/27/2015

Atty. Gen. Eric Holder banning seizure and forfeiture of wealth and assets without compelling evidence of wrongdoing.

Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with local, state police, January 16, 2015- Washington Post

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Health Care

30 Friday Jan 2015

Posted by US Legal Research in doctors, Health Care, war on drugs

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doctors, Marion Stahl, Professor James Fetzer, The Monster Chase

Mental Health

Prof James Fetzer and veterans today publicizing the atrocities suffered by doctors victimized by the war on drugs.

State of Pennsylvania banning solitary isolation for mental patients for punitive purposes in state institutions.

Physicians

Marion Stahl’s fiction “The Monster Chase” telling the anguish of a Dr. victimized by our current laws.

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