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La Jolla oncologist pleads guilty to importing unapproved drug
Some of you are either very naive or related to this crook. The issue here is not how the US FDA regulates drugs, it's that this guy lives in the US, works in the US and ... defrauded the US with one of the oldest tricks in the book used with everything from caviar to auto parts: buy the stuff on the black market for cheap then claim its the "real stuff" bought for the official price and pocket the difference. No, he didn't save his patients any money and thus didn't do them a favor. He did it for his own gain. Yeah, maybe the drug is the same but...did he actually do his own efficacy tests for the doses he bought? What were the expiration dates? Did the stuff first spend a year in an overheated wearhouse? Would you want this mystery-background stuff injected into your body? My wife was treated by this guy, thankfully without chemo although it we discussed it with him as an option. I sure don't remember his saying anything about getting a drug rebate. So ultimately he's just caused all our future medical insurance payments to rise due to fraud. Thanks Ex-doc!— January 24, 2013 6:32 p.m.