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The Criminalization of Medicine - America's War on Doctors (Hardcover)
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The Criminalization of Medicine - America's War on Doctors (Hardcover)
Series: The Praeger Series on Contemporary Health and Living
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Medical doctors have been made political scapegoats for the
financial crisis of healthcare and the failed war on drugs in the
United States, says author Ronald T. Libby. In order to combat
health fraud and abuse, the government launched tough new laws and
guidelines designed to battle rising urban violent crimes, illegal
drugs, and terrorism. But, by eliminating safeguards to protect the
innocent, those same laws and guidelines also made it far easier
for agents and prosecutors to arrest, charge, fine, convict, and
imprison physicians. Current "witch hunts" for doctors include
wiretaps and whistleblowers who get 35 percent of the fines, even
before conviction. Under a new doctrine of "harmless error" a
doctor receives no protection against false testimony. Libby
explains all of this, offering cases from media reports, personal
interviews, and records of trial as examples in this compelling
book. Huge law enforcement bureaucracies have been created to
target doctors for alleged fraud, kickbacks, and drug diversion.
Federal, state, and local police are rewarded for prosecuting
doctors and other healthcare professionals, while investigators and
prosecutors receive pay raises and promotions, and law enforcement
agencies seize the assets of doctors charged with felonies. Libby
explains that doctors are prosecuted for billing mistakes, for
referring patients to clinics, or treating pain patients with
pain-relieving drugs. They receive large fines and long prison
sentences, some even harsher than those given common criminals
who've committed the most violent offenses. As a consequence of
"overzealous investigations and prosecutions" of physicians, many
more doctors are demoralized, refuse toaccept Medicare and Medicaid
patients, and are fearful of prescribing pain-relieving medication.
Join Senior Research Fellow Libby, who is also a Professor of
Political Science, as he shows us why doctors have been "demonized"
as corrupt and greedy entrepreneurs, how media sensationalizes
doctors' arrests, and what unjust prosecution could mean for the
future of healthcare.
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