PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE | BY RICH LORD, J. BRADY MCCOLLOUGH AND ADAM SMELTZ | 05.22.16
Dr. Gary A. Shearer continued to prescribe painkillers, even as 14 of his patients died of drug overdoses, according to Kentucky investigators.
Maryland psychiatrist Patricia A. Newton kept prescribing to a struggling addict, according to a judge’s account in a dispute over her license, until that patient turned up, unconscious, in a Maryland hospital bathroom with a syringe and 545 pills.
Physician Michael B. Rosen was prescribing nearly 1,000 highly addictive pills per month to a patient who told a Pennsylvania detective that he “did not have any serious pain,” but could get “whatever he wanted” from “Dr. Feel Good,” according to a police affidavit.