The Intertventionalists' Fraud (Florida, Texas, Louisiana)

Contact: Paul Sloan
pas401@gmail.com

PAIN CLINICS: GRAND JURY REPORT DECEPTIVE

Special Report Uncovers Omissions, Misrepresentations, and Deception in the
Interim Report of the Broward County Grand Jury (Venice, Florida: July 15, 2010)—

A thirty one page research report released today by the Florida Society of Pain Management Providers, available online at www.FLPainNews.com, challenges many of the purported factual findings of the Broward County Florida Grand Jury Report on Pain Clinics (released on November 19, 2009). The result is a document which is factually deceptive and what is left contains far more innuendo than fact.

The Grand Jury, convened in the spring of 2009 by Michael J. Satz, State Attorney for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, to study the “proliferation of pain clinics in South Florida” was substantially influenced by special interest groups. The purpose of these groups appears to have been to influence legislation and governmental agencies in the development of rules that would regulate their field. The testimony by these special interests groups went un-researched and unchallenged by the State Attorney.

The research report details how the “The Grand Jury Report is ultimately an embarrassment of monumental proportions because of the slanted, biased, and misleading testimony by “pain medicine specialists” and the complete lack of any law enforcement data or statistics,” says Paul Sloan, Director, of Florida Society of Pain Management Providers and author of a special report, entitled, The Omissions, Misrepresentations, and Deceptions as Reported in the Interim Report of the Broward County Grand Jury, says, “In many cases, what the report states as facts, are in most cases anything but. This Grand Jury reports becomes just another example of why most jurisdictions in the United State have abolished this medieval process.”

The special report, compiled and submitted by Paul Sloan began as research for a series of submissions to the Florida Board of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine when those boards were conducting rules workshops for pain clinics. Mr. Sloan noticed that the assertions being cited by two professional medical societies with mutual members and interests were not based on any known facts. A review of the testimony and the assertions that found their way into the grand jury report evidenced a well organized and orchestrated scheme to influence both the workshops and legislation. The desired effect: create a monopoly in their specialty field. It is Mr. Sloan’s belief that what was most dishonorable is that this was all done under a guise of concern over the accidental death rate related to the diversion of pharmaceutical medications.

Members of the Florida Society of Anesthesiologists (FSA) and the Florida Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (FSIPP) have attended the joint medical board’s workshops in great numbers and have spoken directly to their desire to eliminate non board certified pain medicine physicians from the specialty field. As evidenced in the special report, it was recently revealed that these societies’ members (some in public positions) have also been manipulating county zoning ordinances to drive out non board certified physicians.

These actions are concerning on both ethical and legal grounds. One of the findings, which was recently uncovered by Mr. Sloan, contrary to nearly all testimony on the subject, is that there are only 204 board certified pain physicians currently practicing in the State of Florida.

The societies desire to drive out all others from this field, if successful, will be at the expense and detriment to the 18,500,000 citizens especially the uninsured and under insured (Medicaid) whose access to pain care will be severely restricted. There are no board certified pain physicians in 31of the 67 counties in Florida and in fact there is just 1 boarded certified pain physician for every 91,765 residents. This puts Florida into the same category as some 3rd world countries. According to Mr. Sloan, currently in South Florida, alone, there are 13 contiguous counties covering 12,000 sq miles with a population in excess of 5,000,000 without a board certified “pain specialist” to treat Medicaid patients.

It is unfortunate that many well educated and respected individuals believe that Grand Juries are a legitimate and ethical institution and in return accept their reports as the unquestionable fact when in fact they are easily manipulated in order to reach a predetermined outcome.

The Special Report is available online as www.FLPainNews.com For more information e-mail Mr. Sloan at pas401@gmail.com
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NFTP previously commented on the current assault on "Pill Mills",

http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4271454310269129358&postID=6364312137204145508

pointing out that it is actually an assault on blue-collar pain patients. With this news release the REAL source of this unconscionable campaign is revealed.

I am ashamed of any physician who would participate in such craven self-interest. But, this is what is happening. Drug "warriors", of course, are happy to go along, as it serves their self-interests (perpetuation of the fruitless and counter-productive waste of a trillion dollars in the last two decades, from which they have profited extraordinarily.)

When will the American public wake up to this swindle?
J.S. Hochman MD