Feds Focus On Docs Soliciting Bribes

Connecticut's recent suit against Eli Lilly involving Zyprexa involves allegations of racketeering.

The WSJ brings us:

"Until now federal investigations into payola to lubricate sales of orthopedic implants have focused on the companies with deep pockets. But now doctors on the receiving end of payments are becoming targets."

“We are going to be looking at those soliciting kickbacks,” Lewis Morris, chief counsel to HHS’ Office of the Inspector General at a big meeting of orthopedic surgeons this month, the New York Times reports."


We've already seen the California Physician Diversion Program - tasked with Rehabilitating 'unrehabilitable' - mentally ill Docs, throwing in the towel due to the staggering size and scope of the problem. Almost 1 in 5 Cal Doctors are 'Mentally Ill' according to Psychiatry's Bible - the DSM-IV-TR: and therefore UNFIT to practice medicine.

From the same WSJ page comes Boston.com.

"As alleged in our lawsuit, Dr. Chan is only one piece of a big scheme that has been going on across the United States,", .....

In the whistle-blower suit, Thomas alleges that Chan stopped buying equipment from him after Chan signed a $25,000 consulting agreement with Blackstone. Thomas had earlier rebuffed a request from Chan for cash kickbacks, even after Chan said salesmen for competing companies were providing them, according to the suit. .....

"Orthofix and Blackstone are facing several other civil lawsuits alleging that Chan operated unnecessarily. One case alleges that Chan was given stock options in Blackstone for using its equipment. The suit, filed in Arizona, alleges that Chan implanted a spinal device in a young trucker's back in 2005, after telling him that he was at risk of becoming a quadriplegic without the surgery. After the surgery, a worker's compensation evaluation of the MRI done before the surgery showed the procedure was uncalled for, according to the lawsuit. Orthofix and Chan deny the allegations."


The FDA has numerous Psychiatric antidepressant and antipsychotic meds on record as turning people into murderers. Yes, the odds are You won't become a killer if You get poisoned with these chemicals. Odds are OK on lottery tickets. Odds are NOT OK on MURDER.

We wonder just how far a street corner drug dealer would get in Court: claiming as his defense that upon the basis of a short chat with his customer, he determined that his customer was suffering from a 'chemical imbalance' in his brain, and that whatever poison he's peddling would correct that imbalance.