Iranian Dr. Noah McKay's Irish wife became Widow

Iranian Doctor dies Suspiciously in USA, he had to change his name from Naser Talebzadeh to Noah McKay to save his life....
In the midst of controversy, multi-pronged allegations, lawsuits, secret grand jury hearings, and indictments, Dr. Noah launched another first for medicine and radio broadcasting in the State of Washington. On August 15, 1998, The Medicine Man Radio Show aired on ABC's KOMO News/Talk 1000, Seattle's largest and most popular talk radio station. Dr. Noah produced and hosted the popular live talk show for over a year. Over thirty pharmaceutical and healthcare companies provided support and sponsorship for the live radio show.

Co-host, patient advocate and Harvard trained attorney Larry Johnson was the witty sidekick to Dr. Noah. The Medicine Man aired live every Saturday night from 6:00 to 7:00 pm and was enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of listeners in Washington State as well as British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Noah interviewed differed guests and covered new healthcare topics each week for forty-four consecutive weeks.

Highlights of the season included an interview with Christine Gregoire, presently the governor of the State of Washington and Washington State Insurance Commissioner, Debra Senn.

In 1999, after three trying years of depositions and relentless litigation, Federal charges were filed against Dr. Noah and three clinic managers at General Medical Clinic and WellNet LLC. By late 2000, WellNet closed, and six GMC clinics were shut down. Dr. Noah filed for corporate and personal bankruptcy. Legally overwhelmed and physically and emotionally drained, Dr. Noah agreed to the terms of the Federal government's Plea Bargain agreement.

He was charged with Health care fraud and mail fraud under the new HIPAA regulations (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) and sentenced to a 35-month prison sentence at the Sheridan Federal Prison Camp in Sheridan, Oregon. He accepted the terms of the plea bargain agreement and began his prison sentence on February 1, 2001. The dream of building a comprehensive and fully functional integrated model of care was on hold, but only temporarily.

On the surface the losses were numerous and monumental. With the closure of the General Medical Clinics, over 30,000 patients lost their continuity of care, many having been patients since 1979. The integral healthcare model advanced by the practitioners pioneered a new concept for the state of Washington and the nation at large. The closure of General Medical and WellNets twelve clinics, and Dr. Noahs incarceration derailed the practice of integral medicine in the state of Washington. It also brought an abrupt end to the companys expansion plans both regionally and nationally.

On the surface, prison appeared to be a major setback for Dr. Noah, but nobody predicted the paradox in the prison experience. What they could not see was the hidden treasure house of hope, opportunity and endless possibility offered to him. Dr. Noahs childhood idols, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. each formulated the direction of their messages from the sanctuary of their prison cells. They followed their heart to prison and so had he.

When he reflects on his time in prison, he recalls only gratitude, love and everlasting hope and possibility for humanity and for healthcare. He is thankful for the experience and hopeful for the future of medicine.

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[ThePersianGulf]

His wife is Irish.

[tantzer]

We have a judicial system that can "overlook" this.

Freudian slip!

[ratonnewmex]

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