Joseph Parker

The BC PNP latest draws held on August 13, 2024, saw invitations being issued to 154 skilled workers & international graduates, and entrepreneurs.

A doctor in Virginia named Joel Smithers was serving a 40-year sentence in an Atlanta prison when he won his appeal to the 4th Circuit. No, he didn’t shoot someone. That’s probably 25 years. He treated patients in pain. Now, he will get a new trial where he will be bludgeoned again with false metrics and innuendo. To ensure that the benefit of the doubt prevails, a Reuters article starts with, “A Virginia doctor who prescribed more than 500,000 opioid doses in less than two years …” OK. Opioids are the only effective medication for moderate to severe chronic pain, so … Yes. They aren’t perfect, but they’re all we have.

In most physician prosecutions for treating pain or addiction, there is never any actual evidence of criminal intent. Just the nebulous argument that a doctor “ignored the risk of overdose,” “ignored the risk of addiction,” or performed “an insufficient medical exam.” I have a big problem with these because the doctor didn’t ignore anything in about 80 percent of the cases I evaluated. Indeed, the DEA had to lie to a doctor to get a prescription. Usually, they send in a compromised patient, but sometimes an actual agent. The first, knowing their freedom, depends on somehow incriminating the doctor; the other is well-trained in deception. Both are willing to lie to the doctor to get what they need.

When it comes to science and medicine, knowing where you are and where you want to go is only part of the problem. That’s because no matter how strictly you try to control your system, chaos theory dictates that there will be perturbations which, if not corrected for, will lead you far astray. Trying to stay on course in a dynamic environment has been a problem since humanity began traveling out of sight of its cave or campfire. Ancient humans navigated by the sun and stars by establishing landmarks and making course corrections. The best example of a type of ancient calculator for this purpose is the Antikythera mechanism, a super slide rule.

The latest Express Entry draw held on August 26, 2024, invited 1,121 candidates from Express Entry’s Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) stream.

Australia is a very beautiful and unique place. I first went to Sydney in 1996 to present some research I had accomplished together with a much more brilliant and capable research physician. I was able to ride the monorail, now gone I’m told, and travel to the Outback, or at least the edge of it. My wife and the two oldest still at home at that time went there a few years ago, and it was still just as amazing, to hear them tell it.

In the state of New York (you already know it’s going to be bad), a doctor and a pharmacist were arrested in a sting operation conducted by a joint task force of the DEA, FBI, IRS, and probably CIA and CBS, though I have no proof of the latter two. The doctor, Mordechai Bar, and the pharmacist, Feroze Nazirbage, have been accused of “violating their oaths,” something you almost never hear said about a prosecutor who hides evidence, but I digress. They are charged with operating in a manner “no different than common drug dealers.” Is there truth to this, or is it more federal overreach?

The Express Entry latest draw was held on September 09, 2024. A total of 911 candidates from Express Entry’s Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) stream were targeted.

The latest Saskatchewan PNP draw was held on September 12, 2024. A total of 89 candidates from SINP’s Occupations In-demand and Express Entry streams were invited.

I have a problem with some of the continuing medical education courses offered by large health care institutions, even those like Harvard and Mayo, which have outstanding reputations for evidence-based medicine. That’s because what they teach, although scientifically sound and in line with the Department of Health and Human Services and CDC recommendations, can get you prosecuted and convicted by the DEA. If you get targeted for practicing the way you have been trained, the doctors who made these recommendations almost universally refuse to appear in court on your behalf.