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“JAILED DOC, TORTURED PATIENT”
UPI publishes column by AAPS executive
director
The guest column posted by national
news service, UPI, outlines the collateral damage resulting from conviction last
month of Dr. William Hurwitz, nationally recognized pain
specialist.
Dr. Orient writes that convicting
Dr. Hurwitz will have absolutely no impact on illegal drug diversion in
It’s interesting to
note that one of the prosecution’s “star” witnesses testified that he was
doctor-shopping and get drugs to sell even while he was under the “management”
of the DEA to gather evidence against Dr. Hurwitz. So the DEA decides that hundreds of
patients should suffer torture because of the actions of just a few
others.
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Outside
View: Jailed doc, tortured patient
By Jane M. Orient,
M.D.
Outside View
Commentator
Published
Nonetheless, the U.S.
government has adopted a policy that will result in subjecting human beings to
torture, without limit as to degree or duration, and without the necessity of
proving them guilty (or even suspecting them ) of any
crime.
This is not its stated
intent, of course. There is no deliberate application of thumbscrews, the rack
or the Iron Maiden. The pain is a matter of happenstance: an accident, a
disease, failed surgery. It's just that once the pain occurs, it may be illegal
for a physician to prescribe a substance controlled by the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration to relieve it….
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