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Afzal Beemath, MD

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Forty-two year-old internist Afzal Beemath, MD runs a hospice and palliative care clinic in Lathrup Village, MI. On October 23, 2018, he was indicted, arrested, and placed in jail by false accusations for legitimate patient care. His clinic is closed indefinitely. Where do his patients go? Most of them will probably die. When is this country going to wake up and recognize the police state our government has turned into?

Dr. Beemath is a doctor of South African ethnicity who speaks 7 languages. He got his MD at Santiago University of Technology School of Medicine in Chile and did his Internal Medicine residency at Wayne State University School of Medicine. From 2010 he has been the Director of Palliative Medicine at the Detroit Medical Center, building a Palliative Care program through education and consults. He was Director of Palliative Medicine at Sinai Grace Hospital from 2010 to 2013 [their first black Medical Director], Inpatient Hospice Medical Director from 2010 to 2012, and Medical Director of Palliative Medicine at Harper University Hospital in Detroit from 2013 to 2015.

In 2013, he was honored by Patch in an article titled

Dr. Afzal Beemath Helps Patients With Nowhere Else to Turn

highlighting his work in recognition of Black History Month. As stated in the article, Dr. Afzal Beemath, a modern-day community leader and trailblazer, had a life-long dream of becoming a physician and a passion for helping and healing.

In the article, Dr. Beemath explains that palliative medicine is for patients who have a terminal illness, including hospice patients, and provides symptom relief and comfort management. Patients don’t have to go untreated and can still feel healed. “Physicians don’t leave the patient to suffer.” The director of Palliative Care Development for Vanguard Health Systems (a multi-state hospital empire), Dr. Robert Zalenski, said “For one individual doctor like Dr. Beemath to have brought so much good to so many in a unique and special way is perhaps unparalleled. He has a healer’s gift.” Dr. Beemath was key in implementing Vanguard’s ICU-PAL initiative, a 16-week screening of palliative care for critically ill patients. He was the first to start and complete it. Dr. Zalenski credited Dr. Beemath for his outstanding work that made the program successful by stabilizing the patients and making them comfortable. Dr. Beemath stated: “I always had a life-long dream of being a physician.” “It also satisfies that personal craving for helping fellow man.” His compassion shows when he said “There is a lot of heartbreak,” about when everyone can’t be helped. Beemath offers autonomy and dignity to patients who are often at the end of their lives. Teronto Robinson, an internal medicine resident at Sinai-Grace in 2013, said “Words can’t describe how I feel about Dr. Beemath, He’s known around the hospital as a very upstanding, friendly guy. He’s always looking out for the patient and the family.” Palliative medicine helps patients instead of turning them away or stringing them along with false hope. “So what do you do? You take the patients’ hands, who have entrusted their lives to you, and walk with them to the end,” he said. “We don’t just treat them as a number, and we don’t just treat their numbers,” Beemath said.

Dr. Beemath works to educate metro Detroit on palliative medicine and to specifically involve faith groups and clergy. His goal is to extend palliative medicine back to South Africa. Now that is a caring, compassionate physician, not a drug-dealing criminal like the government wants to make him out to be with their indictment and false accusations spread by the media.

Dr. Beemath is also a writer for PubMed. He has 22 articles listed on his LinkedIn page written about various internal medicine topics, which have been cited collectively 1725 times. That is not the work of a drug dealer.

So here you have a doctor whose job is to keep dying people comfortable with pain relief. And now that you know the man before the indictment, look at what the government is trying to paint him to be. The 15-count indictment was titled

Physician Charged in a $32 Million Illegal Opioid Distribution Conspiracy

In other words, they took all of the medications he has prescribed to his palliative care patients and painted a propaganda picture that they are all being sold on the street. How can these people sleep at night?

Then the media take the false statements out of the indictment and publish them like they are facts. Things like:

“illegally distribute more than 1 million doses of drugs, especially opioids”

“recruiting ‘patients’” who did not have a legitimate medical need for the drugs.

“performing a ‘cursory exam’ on patients”

He is also being attacked for running a “cash only” office. Government propaganda against the combination of an opioid and a benzodiazepine is also being spread by the media, although they have been prescribed together for 40 years without problems.

The real evil people in this indictment are U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider, FBI Agent Timothy R. Slater, and DHHS Agent Lamont Pugh III, Assistant US Attorneys Regina R. McCullough, Brandy R. McMillion, and Andrew J. Lievense.

The Eastern District of Michigan is one of the twelve districts in the Opioid Fraud Abuse and Detection Unit of the DOJ, created by AG Jeff Sessions, that uses PDMP data to target and prosecute doctors.

So basically Dr. Beemath was targeted because he stood out as a high prescriber when the government searched the PDMP for numbers. Then he is an independent minority physician. The recent law, Pub.L. 115-271, formerly known as H. R. 6, will allow the government to target more doctors through these tactics, even though drugs are not the cause of addiction. The attacks on doctors like this does provide job security for the evil ones above, and bring money in to provide their salaries.

So a caring, compassionate physician was arrested and hauled into the local jail. He had a hearing on Oct. 24, but returned to jail to return to court the next day for a detention hearing. At this time we do not know the results of that hearing. It’s possible he is still sitting in a jail cell.

P resident Trump and Justice Kavanaugh, you don’t have a clue what a witch hunt is, or how lives and families are ruined. But WE do. Dr. Beemath, I hope you’ve already contacted us at Doctorsofcourage, or will when you see this post. There are things we can help you with.

All Doctors:

You need to join us at doctorsofcourage so that we can fight these illegal attacks. If you don’t, the next target might be YOU!!

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