Bombing the Arkansas Medical Board

Bombing the Arkansas Medical Board

Arkansas: Doctor Found Guilty in Bomb Attack
By ROBBIE BROWN
Published: August 9, 2010
NY Times

A federal jury on Monday convicted a physician of conspiring to detonate a car bomb that badly injured the state medical board chairman. Dr. Randeep Mann faces the possibility of life in prison in the February 2009 bombing in West Memphis, Ark., which left the board chairman, Dr. Trent P. Pierce, badly scarred and partly blind. Prosecutors said the bombing was in retaliation after the board twice sanctioned Dr. Mann for overprescribing pain medication. Dr. Mann’s wife, Sangeeta, was convicted of conspiring to conceal evidence. Prosecutors say that they do not believe the Manns planted the bomb, but that Dr. Mann ordered an unknown person to do so.
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I cannot condone bombing anyone or anything, but I can certainly understand the depth of anger and frustration Dr. Mann must have experienced.

The Arkansas Medical Board is a leading terrorist organization, in my opinion, in the opiophobic campaign against opioid prescribing doctors. This same Board, under the generation-long reign of a Dr.Juette, persecuted Dr.Robert Kales (a fine physician)right out of the state, and personally tyrannized the state's medical community. Perhaps it was no coincidence that Juette was also the medical director for Walmart, which certainly didn't want to pay for pain medications for injured employees. Juette made sure they didn't. Apparently his successor shares the same mission. Now he has to pursue it from a wheelchair, with one eye.

When the People wake up to the venality, cruelty, selfish self-interest, opiophobic "racism" and plain stupidity that supports this denial of legitimate pain care, they will rise in revolt. It can't come a day too soon for me. We don't need to use actual bombs. We just need to set a political bomb under our chicken-hearted and/or misguided lawmakers. They either need to do the job right, and intelligently, or they need to find another job.
Dr. Hochman