Oklahoma Physician Victim of a Medical Ferguson
Black Physicians Experience Discrimination
In
Prosecution By Law Enforcement and the DOJ
Rev. Dr. Myers Urges Everyone to Stand
Against
Pain Patient Bigotry in America
Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D.
(Roland, Oklahoma) -
The Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D.
,
Civil Rights Activist
and
Baptist Medical Missionary
,
Founder & President
of the
American Pain Institute (API)
, one of the leading advocates
for chronic pain treatment in America and the only African American physician in southern
Seqouyah County, Oklahoma, has been falsely accused and punished for the prescription drug
practices of white physicians at the
Wellness Clinic of Roland
by the
Oklahoma Board of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (OBNDD)
.
Returning to full time medical ministry in the Mississippi Delta following the recent death of his mother in Oklahoma, Rev. Dr. Myers has been blocked from receiving his Mississippi
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) certificate because of the discriminatory actions of law enforcement in Oklahoma.
Now the poorest of the poor in America have been prevented from receiving medical care from the only African American physician and black church medical missionary in Mississippi Delta counties that have the least life expectancy of any counties in the nation.
Rev. Dr. Myers is asking for the prayers and support of everyone concerned about health care to the poorest of the poor in America's poorest geographic region,
the Mississippi Delta, and the compassionate treatment of chronic pain patients throughout the nation, to stand against pain patient bigotry in America and racial discrimination by law enforcement.
"The late Chairman of the National Juneteenth Medical Commission, Dr. Frank McCune, and I have worked together for many years exposing the disproportionate prosecution of Black physicians by the law enforcement and the Department of Justice (DOJ)," states Rev. Dr. Myers,
Founder & Chairman of the
National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF).
"Black medical professional face the same injustice by law enforcement as do black males on the streets of Ferguson, New York, Baltimore and across the nation."
Based on NMA's study findings: "Racial profiling is more prevalent in pharmacies located in urban areas where pharmacies either refuse to carry certain opiate medications for fear or robbery, or a belief that prescriptions will be diverted for illegal use."
Racial profiling by doctors and pharmacies, as well as the lack of Black physicians, contribute to inadequate pain management, a serious national public health problem that affects millions of African Americans and other under served minority populations.
Rev., Dr. Myers, who organized a 2004 and 2005,
"America's In Pain!"
- MARCH ON WASHINGTON - "Silent No More!", calling for congressional hearings on the
DEA War on Physicians, Pharmacists and Pain Patients, considers the discriminatory actions taken by law enforcement against his ability to provide health care to the poor, another horrendous example of how racism pervades the justice system in America.
"There are no criminal charges against me in Oklahoma. I have never been arrested or charged with any crimes in my entire life," states Rev. Dr. Myers, also the
Founder & President of the
Myers Foundation for Indigent Health Care and Community Development.
"Similar to the unjustifiable actions taken against Freddie Gray in Baltimore, law enforcement should not have taken action against me and so many other African American physicians in similar circumstances across America."
Death rates continue to soar while population growth declines in the African American community from youth gang violence, abortion, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, lack of access to health care, disproportionate number of young African American males in prison unable to become fathers, disproportionate numbers of African American physicians under criminal investigation by the
Department of Justice (DOJ), declining numbers of African American physicians in private practice, along with other causes.
Rev. Dr. Myers, is especially concerned about the discrimination experienced by thousands of Sickle Cell Anemia patients who live in chronic pain by physicians, hospitals and clinics across the country.
The annual National Juneteenth Health Summit continues to address how increasing health care disparities and the tragic loss of African American physicians in the black community significantly contribute to the historic problem of "Black Genocide" in America.