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There is definitely not enough information in this article about the case to know what’s what.

Here you go:

Jailed Doctor’s Patients to Sue Govt
Patients of a physician who is charged with running a "pill mill" linked to 56 overdose deaths plan to sue the government, claiming it has put patients in mortal danger and created a public health disaster by prosecuting the doctor. . . .
The group's lawsuit . . . seeks an emergency temporary restraining order. It contends the Board of Healing Arts and a Kansas district court ignored the danger to 1,000 medically vulnerable patients who have been forcibly abandoned and must now fend for themselves. . . .
The Pain Relief Network contends that the suspension of [Dr. Stephen] Schneider's license served no legitimate government interest but harmed his patients because it forced the closure of his clinic. Since Schneider's arrest, other doctors have been reluctant to take on his patients, the group said.
The group seeks an emergency order forcing the Board of Healing Arts to restore Schneider's medical license. It also seeks to restrain the Justice Department from harassing a new clinic to be opened under a different doctor, Dr. Joseph M. Sack, at Schneider's now-shuttered Haysville facility.
The group wants an injunction against the Justice Department prohibiting it from confiscating patient files or taking any other actions to impede its treatment of patients in severe pain. It also asks that prosecutors return to the clinic patient files taken in what the group alleges is a violation of federal law.
The lawsuit also asks the court to appoint a special master to oversee the reopened clinic's financial operations to protect it from charges of money laundering.
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Case docket number 6:08-cv-1048, U.S. District Court, District of Kansas

Since Schneider's arrest, other doctors have been reluctant to take on his patients, the group said.

Note the key problem is that the 'government' shut down the clinic! not that the good doctor (the exception that proves the rule), was arrested. Had the arrest been done properly, the clinic would still be in operation. Ya gotta wonder which of the 1,000 good patients' insurance company was using a shyster instead of a lawyer!

Yep, this is more a Lawyer v. Lawyer story than a doctor story! Somehow isn't it amazing that the Politics of Pain is so much different when lawyers get involved than if it were left up to the doctors....that said, sure if the Doctor violates the Hypocratic Oath, censure is absolutely required! just not sure you need lawyers and insurance companies in on the censure!

Oh, and it looks like 8 patients are carrying the ball in this game, not 1,000s! Pain Relief Network civil lawsuit