Willamette Week highlight this rather curious license handout in OR
Dr. Frank Li’s journey leads him to Quimby Street, where he pledges to use different tools to tackle some of the toughest problems in public health.
At first glance, Dr. Frank Li’s history suggests he’s the last person who should be allowed to open a psilocybin service center, where people go to take the legal psychedelic mushroom trips that became available in Oregon last summer.
Li ran a chain of pain clinics in the state of Washington until 2016, when state regulators suspended his medical license, alleging that use of drugs his clinics prescribed had contributed to the deaths of 18 people who were his patients at the time, or had been in the recent past.
The U.S. Department of Justice came after him, too, alleging that he billed Medicare and Medicaid for thousands of unnecessary urine tests at a lab that he owned. He agreed to pay $2.85 million to settle those charges, on top of a lifetime ban from treating chronic pain.
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