Joelseff Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 KTVU San Francisco: San Leandro physician's assistant gets 10 years for prescribing opioids.http://www.ktvu.com/news/san-leandro-physician-s-assistant-gets-10-years-for-prescribing-opioids Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWR Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 He joins an ever growing list of physicians and PAs that do this. Why didn't red flags go up 3 years ago?? #1 opiod prescriber in the state and not a physician?? How slow the wheels of justice turn! Wonder how many "patients" died due to his prescribing?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator ventana Posted December 23, 2018 Moderator Share Posted December 23, 2018 The substances that prosecutors said Lague distributed were oxycodone, oxymorphone, methadone, amphetamines, clonazepam, fentanyl, hydromorphone, morphine, hydrocodone, alprazolam and carisoprodol. The U.S. Attorney's Office said evidence presented at Lague's trial showed that he was the number one prescriber of opioids in the state in 2015 and 2016, according to Medicare records. Prosecutors said Lague prescribed more than 1.6 million controlled substance pills, of which more than 1.4 million were in the most dangerous and abused category, according to U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency guidelines. let me see 48 work weeks a year 5 days a week means he was writing for 6,666 pills per day EVERY day he worked Clearly he was a drug dealer, and should be punished as such for the lives he destroyed..... this is not a pain clinic, this a drug dealer..... good riddens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted December 23, 2018 Moderator Share Posted December 23, 2018 notice no discussion of his SP being held responsible in any way....that is actually a good thing.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BayPAC Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 If you are reading this and have authority to prescribe these meds, please DO NOT BE A DISGRACE to the PA profession and the community. Or if you are reading this and suspect that your colleague is doing this, please report him or her! That's our duty too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reality Check 2 Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 What a disgrace to our profession and medical practice. And a stain to our profession trying to gain ground - the outliers could ruin our chances. What a jerk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joelseff Posted December 23, 2018 Author Share Posted December 23, 2018 notice no discussion of his SP being held responsible in any way....that is actually a good thing....I was going to point that out. I keep telling PAs and Docs that we stand on our own when it really hits the fan. All the doc has to say/prove is he was not around and this was outside of the 5% required chart review and he's off the hook... If the Doc was really "Supervising" though why isn't he on the hook? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAdamsPAC Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 15 hours ago, Joelseff said: I was going to point that out. I keep telling PAs and Docs that we stand on our own when it really hits the fan. All the doc has to say/prove is he was not around and this was outside of the 5% required chart review and he's off the hook... If the Doc was really "Supervising" though why isn't he on the hook? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk Maybe the Doc has dodged the prosecution bullet, but where is the State of California's Department of health on this issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joelseff Posted December 25, 2018 Author Share Posted December 25, 2018 I bet this guy got AWESOME Press Gainey scores! [emoji16][emoji16][emoji16]Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joelseff Posted December 29, 2018 Author Share Posted December 29, 2018 Maybe the Doc has dodged the prosecution bullet, but where is the State of California's Department of health on this issue? Actually, I was thinking about this even more. In California, Docs are required to co sign any charts within 7 days where a PA prescribes a schedule II drug. Perhaps the PA didn't submit the gazillion charts to the Doc... [emoji848]Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JMPA Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 What was his field? who profited from the prescriptions? did others have access to his prescribing? a lot left out of this article. I fully understand prosecuting him for writing to a known divergent if that was indeed the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joelseff Posted December 30, 2018 Author Share Posted December 30, 2018 What was his field? who profited from the prescriptions? did others have access to his prescribing? a lot left out of this article. I fully understand prosecuting him for writing to a known divergent if that was indeed the case. I thought the article stated he was in pain mgmt? Edit: nope you're right article didn't mention it. It did mention though that he knowingly prescribed to pts who told him they were selling the meds. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maureenpac Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Stupid can have all sorts of different letters after its name......pa, np, do, md doesn’t matter. Lock ‘em up cuz all they do is degrade the profession Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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