Another doctor goes down. Meanwhile, you could make a pretty good case that federal investigators killed one of the doctor’s patients by not giving back his records:

Patients of a North Little Rock doctor say they’re concerned about their health after federal agents confiscated their records.
Just over a week ago, agents with the Office of Inspector General served a search warrant on the office of pain specialist Dr. Brian Nichol.

Nichol’s patients, many of whom suffer from chronic pain, now say they cannot get adequate treatment without those records.

In a letter written by Dr. Nichol, he claims that one patient died Wednesday night, because that person could not receive proper care without the correct personal records.

Because the incident is still under investigation, federal agents are unable to comment about what they were looking for.

All for your protection, of course.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 28th, 2006 at 2:42 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under Pain Treatment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.