Kansas: Feds accuse state board of recklessness in doctor’s case

Feb 21, 2008 Author Unknown The Associated Press WICHITA, Kan. — The Kansas Board of Healing Arts is under fire for revealing that federal investigators were probing a clinic run by a Haysville physician, documents obtained by The Associated Press indicate [...]

Pain Relief Network Tries to Reopen Schneider Clinic

Feb 19, 2008 Author Unknown WIBW Kansas Patients of a Kansas doctor charged with illegally prescribing painkillers say they have been repeatedly turned away from other medical providers.

Justice Denied

Feb 13, 2008By: Radley Balko - Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute.Reason MagazineThe Third Circuit has denied Dr. Bernard Rottschaefer's appeal.For background, read my column on the initial prosecution of Rottschaefer here.The justices declined to hear oral arguments in the case and, judging by the curt opinion, it looks as if they didn't bother to [...]

Jailed Doctor’s Patients to Sue Govt.

Feb 11, 2008 By: Roxana Hegeman The Associated Press Times Magazine Newsweek Magazine WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Patients of a physician who is charged with running a “pill mill” linked to 56 overdose deaths plan to sue the government, claiming it has put patients in mortal danger and created a public health disaster by prosecuting the doctor [...]

PRN v Kansas, KASBHA, Mukasey, Melgren, and the DOJ

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT - DISTRICT OF KANSAS PAIN RELIEF NETWORK, on behalf of patients of Stephen J. Schneider, D.O., Plaintiff, [Uzo L. Ohaebosim, Attorney for Plaintiff; 510 N. Main; Wichita, KS 67214; 316-261-5400] vs. THE STATE OF KANSAS, THE KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS, MICHAEL MUKASEY

The First Ache

Feb 10, 2008By: Annie Murphy PaulThe New York Times Twenty-five years ago, when Kanwaljeet Anand was a medical resident in a neonatal intensive care unit, his tiny patients, many of them preterm infants, were often wheeled out of the ward and into an operating room. He soon learned what to expect on their return. The [...]