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The Doctors Who Refused to Stay Silent
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The Doctors Who Refused to Stay Silent
Dr. Ryan Cole is joined by Dr. Mary Talley Bowden and Dr. Ron Elfenbein for a conversation that goes right to the heart of what so many of us watched unfold during COVID.
They’ll talk about the Biden administration’s lawfare attacks over Dr. Elfenbein’s position on monoclonal antibody access, Dr. Bowden’s new book Dangerous Misinformation, and the price doctors paid for standing up for patients when it mattered most.
“A federal judge issued a 93-page opinion acquitting Dr. Ron Elfenbein of healthcare fraud charges. The American Medical Association filed an amicus brief in his defense, stating that the physician who built Maryland’s largest monoclonal antibody treatment operation during COVID had followed the coding rules the AMA itself publishes. A professional coding expert reviewed hundreds of his charts and found them appropriately billed. The government’s own expert witness contradicted the indictment at trial.
None of that was enough. The government appealed, and Elfenbein now faces a second federal criminal trial, with a maximum sentence of 50 years in prison. The total amount in dispute across five patient charts: approximately $250.
This episode brings together three physicians who have lived this pattern firsthand. Elfenbein tells the full story of his federal case for the first time on the IMA Weekly Show. Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, who was suspended from Houston Methodist for tweeting about vaccine mandates and has since founded the Coalition for Health Freedom, discusses what drives institutional retaliation against outspoken physicians. And host Dr. Ryan Cole, still fighting multi-state medical licensing attacks, raises the question the conversation keeps circling back to: what happens to patients when the system teaches doctors that speaking up isn’t worth the risk?”
Watch here: https://imahealth.org/the-price-of-medical-courage/
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Well done Dr. Talley-Bowden we love the billboard !!
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An interesting conversation about the case can be seen here https://imahealth.org/forums/groups/public-forum/forum/discussion/dr-elfenbein-case-a-chat-with-a-legal-ai-bot/
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