Anna Nicole Smith

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Here are some phrases that you might not expect to hear sweet, friendly Dr. G use very often:

“No, there is no way in hell I am going to renew that prescription as written.”

“Read my lips.  No more oxycodone.  We gotta get you into a rehab, sweetie.”

“Sure, you can see another doctor.  I don’t know how long it will take to get an appointment.  If I am your doctor, you go on a tapering schedule.  Today.”

“If I did what you want, I could kiss my license goodbye.  I am not prescribing outside my specialty and certainly not this crap.  Yes it is crap.  I am sorry you don’t like how I talk, but it is crap.  I can start getting you off it.”

These are all things I have actually said.  Usually loud, yelling over the patient. Read more on Pill Mills Are Death Traps — Marginally Legal…

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I guess the death of Anna Nicole Smith has become old news.  All I found in the daily newspaper was a short item saying that the trial was going on in Los Angeles.

After more than one internet search, the only mention I found of what is going on online is this one, in what seems to be a Seattle tabloid.

I strongly suspect that this is a road that has been travelled more than I know.  After all, I am not exactly a celebrity watcher. Nevertheless, from what we already know about folks like Michael Jackson, and from what Dr. Nathalie Maullin seems to have said under oath, I think we have a pretty good idea of what it is like to be a drug-seeking celebrity.

First, I think it worth noting that Dr. Maullin was on staff at Cedars-Sinai at the time. Now putting aside the PR of the latter (it is allegedly the best in L.A.; they have ads and some top notch publicity firm–) Cedars Sinai is a hospital.  I can testify that to be on staff at any clinic or hospital, they do a background check. Read more on Anna Nicole’s Doctors Couldn’t Have Made Worse Decisions If They Tried…