Nashville at law: Doc sues pharmacies for revealing meds probe

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Nashville at law: Doc sues pharmacies for revealing meds probe

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Sunday, 02 May 2010 12:13

Revealed Middle Tennessee doctor said she was under investigation on suspicion of overprescribing painkillers - through a lawsuit against four pharmacies has revealed she was suspected of overprescribing painkillers.
Joyce Brown, who works in the management clinics pain in Nashville and Smyrna, filed separate court on March 25 against CVS Pharmacy Co., Ltd. K-Mart, Inc. and Walgreen Co. Wal-Mart Associates and complaints claim that the pharmacists in the local units diverted from chain pharmacy and a national away from patients who suffering from recipes Brown, telling them it was under legal investigation.

This is not defamation suits, pharmacists, and tell the truth:. "The local police in Smyrna, and anti-drug agency investigated the practice," said attorney Alan Woods Law Office of the Bretton Woods institutions in Nashville, and a physician. "But to my knowledge, has not been indicted on anything at this stage."

Instead, members of the pharmacy claims Brown interference in their work and invaded her privacy by revealing the suspicions of law enforcement activity. And provided information in stores outside "gave unreasonable publicity" of her private life, she says, and "the cause of great humiliation, stress and psychological pain."

Each lawsuit is seeking 250,000 dollars in compensation, as well as an unspecified amount in punitive damages.

Brown's earlier lawsuit against a group of police officers in the area of Nashville Smyrna in the United States Court last October, claiming they were harassing her medical practice because they suspected her of an incorrect description of the pain meds. This case is still pending.

"It's the wizard pain management,"
Breton said NashvillePost.com last week. "It's a true believer that the controlled substances is the best way to treat these types of conditions. I'm sure that some people are just as described a kind of drug dealer, but this is not the case."

The lawyer said Brown's "excellence in her," but in the line of controversy in medicine. "It's people's treatment in some cases would be suspicious of, and are targeted and harassed because of it," Woods said.

That none of the defendant to comment when contacted last week.

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