Troubles Linger for Acquitted Doctor Heberle…

Troubles Linger for Acquitted Doctor Heberle (full text) Lisa Thompson; Erie Times-News; 2006-05-30.

Comment (DeLuca): A follow-up on Dr. Heberle and his family months after his complete exoneration by jury trial. It is a Pyrrhic victory. He has incurred tremendous debt, is losing his office and home, is essentially unemployable in Erie due to the publicity and employers’ fears of state law enforcement reprisals.

In the War on Doctors, even when we win, we lose. Even when we are vindicated by a jury, our lives and those of our patients are destroyed. Even when we win the Chilling Effect worsens, and fewer and fewer docs will treat chronic pain, and there is less and less access to chronic opioid therapy for patients with severe chronic pain. This is the Pain Crisis in America.

See also: No Convictions - but Dr. Fisher’s Practice is in Ruins - Eric Snider, Weekly Planet, 2004-06-21.

Pain Killer - Frank Fisher, M.D., Harvard Medical Alumuni Bulletin, 2006.

‘The Doctor Wasn’t Cruel Enough’ - Maia Szalavitz, ReasonOnline, 2006-06-02.

Erie - Dr. Klees Incarcerated, Dr. Heberle Exonerated, Pain Patients Abandoned - WAR ON PAIN SUFFERERS #10, 2006.

The Trials of Dr. Frank Fisher: the Cost of Exoneration - WAR ON PAIN SUFFERERS #7, 2006.

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