My name is Linda S. Cheek. I am a family practice physician in Dublin, Virginia and I am a felon for health care. Trained originally in conventional medicine which keeps you sick, my love and my passion is for the alternative practices that can trigger the body to heal.
Pain is a signal from your body that something is wrong. By removing the roadblocks, giving the necessary nutrients, and using specific remedies, the body is usually able to heal itself and the pain resolves. Pain is usually not caused by what conventional doctors tell you. Based on alternative knowledge, I can usually justify patients’ pain. Opiates are not my treatment of choice long term because they do not fix the cause of the pain. But while a person is working on the cause, opiates give them some temporary relief, improve sleep and decrease stress.
Treating patients with opiates and providing them with the necessary remedies to start to heal has put me in direct conflict with the goals of our government—to not treat pain, and to not help people heal. In 2006 my office was raided under the auspice of Medicare/Medicaid fraud. The supposed fraud was teaching my patients lifestyle changes and dietary instruction during an office visit that Medicare deemed “not medically necessary” even though it saved the program millions of dollars per year. After a two-year negotiation in which the government was relentless on charging me with breaking the law and sending me to prison for twenty years (mandatory sentence for Medicare/Medicaid fraud if convicted), I accepted a plea bargain--one count Medicare/Medicaid fraud based on billing issues, a fine of $1000, and four years probation.
A felony conviction caused the automatic suspension of my medical license and my DEA registration. I regained my license in nine months and reopened my practice in 2009. I should have had my DEA certificate reissued within six weeks of application. However, after 2 years of waiting, the DEA judge denied me my certificate. The government intended all along, with the assistance of the assistant US Attorney Jennie Waering, and with the help of the Virginia Board of Medicine to find something to charge me with, AGAIN. While I waited for my DEA certificate, another doctor helped me treat patients. Through coersion and threats by government officials, that doctor and then two others willing to help were forced to stop helping. That put 200 patients on the street buying black market pills for their pain, or doing without. No practice from mid-state Virginia to Tennessee will treat the population of patients that I treat—the self-pay, Medicare or Medicaid patients. Three patients have died, one leaving a suicide note stating “I can’t take the pain.” Her sister threatened suicide today when she found out that the third doctor has been scared away. As far as the government is concerned, that is just less disability checks to write. However, what they don’t understand is that by denying all the people pain management, there will be hundreds more signing up for disability.
As a result of my office being shut down a second time, I am looking for ways to inform the people about what we, real doctors, are up against in trying to help them. I also want to hear from other doctors suffering the same government attack, and patients unable to find pain management. Somehow we must empower each other to make the changes in our government to stop this incredible attack on our constitutional rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I am writing this blog for the following purposes:
- To show the evil in our government and how they will stop at nothing to achieve their agenda, even if it means lying themselves or paying criminals to lie, coercion, or intentionally setting people up to commit a crime.
- To inform the public about the difficulties doctors have when they choose to treat your pain.
- To give pain patients a forum to express themselves without fear of reprisal.
- To help change our government officials from politicians to statesmen, doing what is right instead of what is on the agenda.
I hope you will visit the blog regularly and learn what is happening. Please keep in mind that any information on this blog describing alternative medicine for pain is not designed to treat. If treatment is what you desire, please contact me for an appointment at my office.
