Posts Tagged With: medical board

Dr. Schneider’s pretrial motions to dismiss on constitutional grounds, and his motions for abstention have been filed, as has the Government’s opposition to those motions, and Dr. Schneider’s response to the Government’s opposition. As I understand it, now we wait for rulings by the Judge. The relevant briefs, and the Order releasing Dr. Schneider on bond and setting conditions on that release, are linked to, below.

Wichita Eagle article reporting on the release on bond of Dr. Stephen Schneider, Kansas family physician who cares for chronic pain patients.

Associated Press article about injunction filed in State Court by the patients of the federally indicted Dr. Schneider; judge to hear PRN’s Temporary Restraining Order, Friday Feb. 29, 2008.

Associated Press article about PRN\’s lawsuit against the State of Kansas, the Kansas medical board, and Attorney General Mukasey and the Department of Justice. The article focuses on the continuing plight of the legitimate pain patients of federally indicted and imprisioned Dr. Schneider. The patients claim no local doctors or hospitals will treat them properly for chronic pain out of fear of becoming targets of drug war zealotry, like Dr. Schneider.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT – DISTRICT OF KANSAS PAIN RELIEF NETWORK, on behalf of patients of Stephen J. Schneider, D.O., Plaintiff,
[Uzo L. Ohaebosim, Attorney for Plaintiff; 510 N. Main; Wichita, KS 67214; 316-261-5400]
vs.
THE STATE OF KANSAS, THE KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS, MICHAEL MUKASEY, in his official capacity as United States Attorney General; ERIC F. MELGREN, in his official capacity as the United States Attorney for the District of Kansas, and THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Defendants.

VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATION OF RIGHTS AND FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER PURSUANT TO FED.R. CIV.P. 65(b)…

Associated Press article about the Kansas Board of Healing Arts (aka the medical board, aka the KASBAH) reneged on an earlier agreement with the Pain Relief Network to forego action against Dr. Schneider\’s license until a full hearing of the facts could be had.

Blog post about the Pain Relief Network, the Dr. Schneider trials in Kansas, PRN\’s favorite music video, and KAKE TV coverage of PRN in Kansas – The Controlled Substances Act is UNCONSTITIONAL. Links to related news items provided.

Associated Press article about injunction filed in State Court by the patients of the federally indicted Dr. Schneider, protecting his license to practice till all the facts can be heard.

The invocation of the WHO “analgesic ladder” concept of progressive pharmacological treatment of pain, in state investigations of physicians, is sometimes unfair. On the one hand the guidelines are interpreted as rules… On the other hand, state rules and regulations are often at odds with the spirit and specifics of the WHO guidelines, and of ethical medicine.

Dr. Fisher last practiced medicine some eight years ago. In the interval he has been criminally prosecuted for murder, civilly sued for wrongful death, and administratively prosecuted by the State of California medical board and stripped of his licenses to practice and prescribe. “I call it triple jeopardy,” he says. “That’s why doctors won’t treat [chronic pain].” All of this because he presumed to treat poor people to the medical [standard of care][soc] for chronic pain, which is opioid titration to analgesic effect or to untreatable side-effect. [...]

Excerpt: “Bill Hurwitz thought he had an ‘understanding’ with the authorities, he thought, not only was he being totally above board about what he was doing, and apparently told lots of people like me and these people, but he also thought that the authorities were responsibly monitoring his practice as per agreement in a sort of defacto partnership. I think Billy saw his work in part as a demonstration project – an working model of what the Pain societies and ASAM taught in the 90′s (and still do) – a sort of supervised, real life, proof-of-concept study of outpatient chronic …

No Relief in Sight (full text plus Related References) – by Jacob Sullum, Senior Editor of Reason Magazine, 1997. Source. ‘Brief Note’ added: 2009-07-14. **Brief Note:** A true classic in the annals of the pain crisis in America. This article, as much as any other one thing I can think of, altered my life from practicing physician to practicing pain relief advocate. I am also a big fan of Mr. Sullum’s 2004 book, *Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use*. ..alex… “Torture, despair, agony, and …