Radley Reviews Rottschaefer

Radley Reviews Rottschaefer; Alex DeLuca; War on Doctors/Pain Crisis blog of the Pain Relief Network; 2007-08-28.

Sex, Lies, and Federal Prison; Balko; 2007-08-28
See also:
Sex, Lies, and OxyContin - Tierney; 2006
Dr. Rottschaefer archives

Very thorough review of this important case in the modern war on doctors. See the Rottschaefer archives linked to above for key legal briefs in addition to high points in the journalistic record.

“Dr. Rottschaefer got five years in a minimum security prison,” says Siobhan Reynolds of the Pain Relief Network, an advocacy group for pain patients. “But he’s still trying to get a new trial, even though if he’s convicted, that sentence will be thrown out, and he could get 25 years or more. That seems like a risk someone would only take if he’s innocent, doesn’t it?”

Sometimes I’m just speechless. It is almost unbelievable, and very frightening, how mean spirited and venal our Department of Justice really has become under Bush / Ashcroft / Gonzales. That physicians like Rottschaefer, McIver, Hurwitz, and the rest go down, trial after trial, appeal after appeal, cases brought in bad faith, law no jury can rationally parse.

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