Neither Doctor Or Lawyer

A Louisiana Hearing Committee has recommended the disbarment of a doctor/lawyer convicted of a federal drug distribution crime that had led to at least one death.

The respondent received his medical license in 1977, attended law school from 2001 to 2004 and was admitted to the practice of law in Louisiana in 2007.

He operated Global Pain Management, which was characterized by the committee as a “pain pill mill.”

His medical license was suspended for three years as a result of the conviction.

One patient to whom he prescribed methadone led to a finding that his “prescription or failure to oversee the prescription of medication subjected [the deceased] to an increased risk of death.” (Mike Frisch)