Another day, another doctor accused of flaunting the Hippocratic Oath to flood the world with prescription painkillers. Officials say a Bronx doctor has been accused of running a multimillion dollar oxycodone distribution ring out of a Morrisania "Pain Clinic," allegedly prescribing the addictive opioid to fake patients who would sell them via the black market.

Authorities say that licensed internist Robert Terdiman, 68, has written about 18,700 prescriptions for oxycodone since he started working at Bronx pain clinic Astramed Physicians, PC, in June 2012. Investigators believe he prescribed a total of 3 million pills, and with the street value for oxy running at about $30-a-pill, they expect the operation racked up an unprecedented $90 million.

"Dr. Robert Terdiman is charged with selling prescriptions for highly addictive painkillers on a scale we have not seen before," Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan said in a statement today. "Not only is he charged with perpetuating a practice that did little to heal and much to harm, both he and the Clinic reaped huge profits."

As for how Terdiman managed to make all this money, prosecutors say the patients that populated his pain clinic were really "runners" hired by recruiters to pose as people in need of prescriptions. Terdiman allegedly talked them through the questionnaire required before prescribing oxy without performing an examination—undercover agents who came in for sessions with him noted he did not react to inconsistencies in their answers. They were required to pay between $200 and $300 via money order and received prescriptions for pills on every visit.

And when the community complained about the practice, which attracted increasingly large crowds over time, authorities say the clinic started requiring patients to take urine drug tests, though at the clinic, "recruiters openly sold bottles of urine that tested positive solely for oxycodone. These samples were given to Astramed staff members, who generated reports in an effort to legitimize The Clinic’s files."

Yesterday, Terdiman was busted at a Yonkers motor inn where he had been holed up, and authorities recovered financial records, a .357 revolver and 47 rounds of ammunition hidden in his room's TV stand. He faces charges of conspiracy in the fourth degree and criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance, and is expected to be arraigned today.

Prescription painkiller deaths have been on the rise over the past few years, and the city says they've been stepping up their efforts to crack down on both legal and illegal drug prescriptions.