KevinMD October 27, 2024
L. Joseph Parker, MD

Today, in America, if you are suffering from certain medical conditions, physicians are being taught that you cannot be trusted or even treated. This results from a decade of law enforcement targeting physicians, pharmacists, and nurse practitioners for making medical judgment calls the police don’t agree with when it comes to the treatment of certain conditions. I use the term “police” here to include federal agencies, knowing that, while policing the populace was left by the founders to the states, that authority has now been fully usurped by the federal government, which is now brazen enough to put it on their jackets. In the famous case of Dr. Thomas Moore (1974), the U.S. Supreme Court said that the Controlled Substances...

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