Kansas doctor sentenced to life in prison for patient death

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Steven R. Henson, 57, was immediately taken into custody following sentencing. There was an audible gasp in the packed courtroom when U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten pronounced the life sentence. Henson showed no emotion.

A federal jury convicted the Wichita doctor for the 2015 death of Nick McGovern. Prosecutors alleged McGovern, who received prescriptions from Henson, died of an overdose of the anti-anxiety drug alprazolam and methadone, which is used to wean addicts off heroin.

The government presented evidence at trial that Henson wrote prescriptions in return for cash, postdated prescriptions and wrote them without a medical need or legitimate medical exam. Prosecutors said the doctor prescribed opioid medications in amounts likely to lead to addiction.

He also was convicted of conspiracy to distribute prescription drugs outside the course of medical practice, unlawfully distributing various prescription drugs, presenting false patient records to investigators, obstruction of justice and money laundering.

Kansas doctor sentenced to life in prison for patient death

 

[Craygor]

What to see some weird shit? Check out the website "Doctors of Courage". Its a website dedicated to protecting doctors who are caught over prescribing pain meds by Federal authorities.

Here's Steven Hendson's page:

It is unbelievable and maddening how brazen the DOJ is now at criminalizing good, compassionate doctors. They have it down to a science. The right words—the propagandizing media—and a law-abiding citizen could become a convicted felon. Steven R. Henson, MD, 54, of Wichita, KS is another potential casualty in the illegal attacks on doctors. WE have to stop it!

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Steven R. Henson, MD

It is unbelievable and maddening how brazen the DOJ is now at criminalizing good, compassionate doctors. They have it down to a science. The right words—the propagandizing media—and a law-abiding c…

doctorsofcourage.org

Dr. Steven "I milked junkies so I could hold children in Tanzania, so technically, I'm still a humanitarian" Henson

 

[Knox]

Good. I'm all for chronic pain sufferers getting the pain meds they need. But you need to be very strict with them. And Azolopram or Xanax as everyone knows it by doesn't do shit for pain. Sure, it makes it so you don't care about anything while you're taking it, but it doesn't stop pain. I hate doctors like this.

 

[Spider]

If they're gonna start sending doctors in Kansas to prison for fucking up and killing people there won't be many doctors left in Kansas. They don't typically practice in Kansas because they were top of their class.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

He had a good hustle.
I wonder what his hustle will be behind bars.

 

[notchback]

If they're gonna start sending doctors in Kansas to prison for fucking up and killing people there won't be many doctors left in Kansas. They don't typically practice in Kansas because they were top of their class.

Do you know what the call the person who graduates last in their class in medical school?



Doctor.

 

[Doctor Slaughter]

He had a good hustle.
I wonder what his hustle will be behind bars.

Hustling his booty

 

[G1rlVeteran]

Good. I'm all for chronic pain sufferers getting the pain meds they need. But you need to be very strict with them. And Azolopram or Xanax as everyone knows it by doesn't do shit for pain. Sure, it makes it so you don't care about anything while you're taking it, but it doesn't stop pain. I hate doctors like this.

I have suffered with excruciating chronic pain in both of my arms due to nerve damage I developed while in the Army. It was absolutely relentless. It felt like there was a white hot wire from my armpits to my fingers. I was being prescribed Fentanyl patches and as my tolerance increased the dose they were prescribing did too. I was still in pain but I was whacked out of my gourd. I went to a small town doctor my mom recommended and told him that I wanted to get off of the opiates all together. I guess I expected a referral to a rehab but he wrote me a script for 100 percocet and told me to go home and wean myself. I had such a high tolerance that I ended taking all 100 of them in about 32 hours. I used to be a paramedic so when I began exhibiting symptoms of Acetaminophen poisoning. I ended up being transferred to the transplant center in Omaha because my liver and kidneys were totally shut down. I was told that I was not a candidate for transplants so hopefully my organs would recover on their own. In time they did recover and I was put in touch with a pain specialist. She prescribed Lyrica and once I was finally titrated to the therapeutic dose I began a new life of having barely any pain. All of the narcotics did not only fail to provide any relief but instead they were killing me.
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Do you know what the call the person who graduates last in their class in medical school?



Doctor.

Do you know what the call the person who graduates last in their class in medical school?



Doctor.

More like they are VA doctors

 

[Satanica]

If you had not been intelligent and informed, all of that might of turned out much differently. Congratulations on your survival!

I worked with a woman who took all sorts of pain meds for years and years, because she had problems after having polio. In the end, however, she also had kidney damage but was not listed for a transplant due to her weight. She died in 2011.