Even when they do, the boards are mainly composed of doctors and nurses peers, who can be reluctant to throw the book at one of their own, says Rebecca Haw Allensworth, a Vanderbilt University law professor who has studied medical boards. This requirement is waived, however, in cases where public health, safety, or welfare imperatively requires emergency action.). Other doctors dont post pictures of themselves with motorcycles and scantily clad women, either. We cant live if hes out, she said. Longoria: There are many pieces to the puzzle of how opioids found their way into so many medicine cabinets. They didnt try to become reality-TV stars. Will be glad to take the balance out of your ass. To another, Jeff asked, You want to come by for a checkup tomorrow? Calles: I just wasnt getting the care I needed. We put out calls and emails to dozens of Jeff Youngs patients. He would try to squeeze in even more patient visits each daysometimes well over 50, former employees sayand would either forget to document services or would document services he hadnt provided. Most doctor appointments, after all, average a nerve-racking 17 minutes, in which you spill out a complicated medical history and pray the doctor has a good solution. Eventually Shirley Pickering, the nursing-board investigator who was looking into the allegations against Young, also grew terrified of him. 0:04. I talked to him a couple of weeks ago. An active and fun show following the life of FNP Jeff Young II at work and his life after work. But as I talked to more patients, they started saying things that really surprised me. Khazan: When I first started talking to Jeffs former patients, I thought I understood this story. And even then, I didnt want to hear it. Young and the others were among dozens of doctors, nurses, and pharmacists arrested across seven states, targets in the nations largest takedown of medical providers related to prescription opioids. (The music opens up into a technologic rainforest as synthesizers mimic birdsong.). Longoria: Pharmaceutical companies marketed these drugs aggressively to doctors. Employees I spoke with said he eventually was seeing 50 to 85 patients a day, compared with about 20 for the average doctor, and most of them seemed to be on opioids. Lax regulations played a role. And doctorswho work in what is, after all, a service professionsometimes feel that its easier to pacify the patient than to push back. Khazan: In the pilot, he presents himself as more of a friend than a medical professional. Young was, in short, a medical provider who acted like everyones best friend. Im very shocked. Then it rewinds into nothingness.). Khazan: Christi had really appreciated what Jeff did for her. Yet he still attracted patients at GeneXis prior to his detention hearing in May 2019. Whats up kids? And I said, And they say that youre trading sex for medication. He was like, You know, these motherfuckers lie all the damn time. [Chuckles.] Young: Listen, I am for the patient. A restaurant called the Little Rebel displayed a Confederate flag. You may not like what I stand for. Visit our website terms of use at www.wnyc.org for further information. Longoria: And what part of the crisis were you most focused on? Young: That was what Im going to say. Khazan: So Ive written a million stories about this. Khazan: In his Periscope videos, Jeff insisted it was all fun and games, and people were just criticizing him because of his style. Thats the only way you can describe it. The cause of death, according to the letter, was a probable cardiac event due to polypharmacy, or the simultaneous use of multiple drugs.. Theres this moment in one of the videos that I keep thinking about: Young: (Over more pool filtration.) Hed wandered off into the woods. But one thing that I was really curious about is how you actually went from having opioids being a thing that existed to having opioids be a thing that existed in peoples medicine cabinets. Scott Deberry: And, you know, once you get around the tattoos and the way he talkscause he talks to you as if hes talking to you on the streets As long as he was going to take care of me and make me feel okay, or make me feel better, I had no problem with that. Young was indicted on drug-trafficking charges in April 2019. ), (What sounds like road noise plays in the background of a Periscope clip. Not that theyre not cheating on their wives. His small fiefdom of followers created a mini echo chamber, feeding back approval and encouragement. I need you to find this fucker, he wrote, according to court testimony later reported by The Jackson Sun. Be part of The Experiment. During one club night, Young bought Stephanie two drinks and his friends handed them to her. Trial dates have been set for "Rock Doc" Jeffery Young, his supervising physicians, and two more medical professionals recently indicted on additional drug trafficking charges. In fact, he avoided doctors at all costs. Calles: You could just tell by the demeanor that that was there. To date, none of the alleged victims in Youngs court case has come forward publicly to speak against him. Stephanie, who returned to Youngs clinic after the incident at the club, said Young helped her more than any doctor shes ever seen. But that did not put a stop to Youngs ambitions. Its gonna be a little cold, all right? Young appeared to operate more subtly. Khazan: He worked in the timber industry, and one day at work, he got overheated and disoriented. Young: (Over hard-rock music.) Young cries at his sons fifth-grade graduation, then explains that hes so emotional because his nurses are having their periods. Naylor: They just immediately hit it off. Dan Reaves, a local radio host on whose show Young occasionally appeared as part of a marketing plan, described Young as medically gifted. Later that month, M.Y. Mellow and slow, it moves under the narration the way water moves through a stream.). It was just rocked out. And Im like, Oh. [A beat.] The trial for "Rock Doc" Jeffrey Young, the infamous nurse practitioner from Jackson who was indicted in 2019 on drug trafficking charges and accused of . Jackson Sun. One of the differences between physicians and nurse practitioners is that physicians are regulated by a state Board of Medicine, while in most states, nurse practitioners are regulated by a state Board of Nursing. The waiting room often overflowed with patients. Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. Kevin: Jeff and I are full of antics. Naylor: My husband hadnt been to a doctor in years. Khazan: Part of making her feel better was prescribing her opioids. ET on January 28, 2021. He has three children, two sons, and a daughter, from his first marriage. But Young was eager to let the world know that he was no typical nurse practitioner. At the same time, building himself up as a renegade nurse practitioner seems to have allowed Young to sweep his faults under the rug of unconventionality. Scott Deberry: When I first was going in the office, I could go in there and thered be maybe 10 of us in there. Always have been for the patient. Am I a misogynist, or do women just like rough sex? Young asks himself in one video. Khazan: To me, this felt immature, but it was all part of the brand. Federal prosecutors say his help often amounted to dealing drugs for sex. The biggest blow came in 2019, when Jeff was indicted by the federal government for overprescribing opioids, often in order to get, quote, money, notoriety, and sexual favors., In a court hearing, investigators described several Facebook messages between Jeff and his patients, identified only by their initials. The first move of any significant consequence for Young came in early 2017, when the DEA raided the clinic. And the word that kept coming up when people described Jeff is comfortable. Young became known for putting drugs into the hands of almost anyone who asked. MY died on August 25, 2015, from an apparent drug overdose. You need to be a certain kind of person to want a reality-TV show about yourself. He would chitchat with his patients, ask them about their latest tattoos. The music plays on.). ), Youngs sexual desires and need to please patients allegedly soon blurred together. (Fades under.). The clinics aim would be to halt the parade of miseriesheart attacks, early deaths, hospital billsbrought on by the obesity epidemic. Khazan: This is Tanya Ballard. I had had back surgery, and I really had real problems that no one wanted to listen to me about. In July 2016, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation began looking into allegations that Young was overprescribing opioids. Young is . Khazan: I was wondering if your ex-husband still supports Jeff or thinks he was a good medical provider. He remarried in 2006. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, and is currently in jail awaiting trial. The patients of the nurse practitioner and aspiring reality star Jeffrey Young say he helped them like nobody else could. She appreciated that he asked about her grandkids. They are often too under-resourced and understaffed to keep a watchful eye on all medical providers. Young did seem to be famous enough in Jackson, however, to reinforce his own grand vision of himself. (Soft percussive synthesizer music plays.). (A moment of narrative silence. Apparently she felt strongly enough about it that he wouldnt leave her alone if she went to see him. He wasnt in pain. To deal with the latter, the city, like so many others in America, has become ever more reliant on opioids. Patel left soon after. Longoria: Opioids would be a new kind of painkiller to treat not just acute pain after an event like a surgery, but also pain that was more mundane, like chronic back pain that patients would complain about for years, but which doctors didnt have a clear cure for. Im in the middle of a life-saving procedure here. The daughter, Melody, actually works in her dad's vet clinic. The whole thing was Very Online. This is just gonna be a little freeze spray first. He never admitted to anything that would make him look bad. Jackson nurse practitioner Jeffrey Young will await his opioid trafficking trial in jail, an appeals court decided Thursday. I had a lot of Why on earth? questions, the Atlantic reporter Olga Khazan says. She doesnt believe the allegations against him, and chalks them up to pure jealousy. Wear a short skirt and no panties.. Like many actual rock stars, he flamed out on his own extravagant lifestyle. Purdue ad doctor: These drugswhich, I repeat, are our best, strongest pain medicationsshould be used much more than they are for patients in pain. Reitz says he and his girlfriend came up with the unwieldy namea futuristic combination of prevent and genetics. Khazan: He had an account on Periscope, the live-streaming site. So what, I dont go get fucked up at the country club with the rest of the stiffs here in J-Town? Khazan: I had a lot of Why on earth? questions: Why would he do this? Heres what I can tell you about the JY2, all right? And hed stream from inside the clinic sometimes. Not that theyre not watching internet porn. ), Jeff Young: Are we live? When you got all kinds of money, said Jon Benjamin Sharp, a local musician who used to see Young around town, you got all kinds of friends. (Sharp made clear that he himself wasnt a fan of Youngs.) His Rock Doc persona helped him connect with patients who might never have felt comfortable in a traditional doctors office. Patients would spend an hour or two in the waiting room, only to get a rushed exam and prescription. By 2012, Young was allegedly supplying testosterone without a clear medical reason to high schoolers who wanted to bulk up. Naylor: I said, Go see Jeff. And she said, Id rather not. And I said, Why? And she said, Because if I go see him, hell start texting me and calling me. And I said, And wanting to go out with you? And she said, Yeah. Thats the thing. Phillips popped off to a friend.). 13.6k members in the AutoNewspaper community. Obesity and diabetes are rampant; so is chronic pain. Why would he do this? Toward the end of PreventaGenix, the nurse practitioner so many people had praised deteriorated, according to former employees. With Young at least temporarily behind bars, some of his fans seem to have reached a point of disillusionment with the Rock Docor, at least, a point of fatigue. Thats very distressing Yeah, Im shocked, you know? Will be glad to take the balance out of your ass. He asked another patient, to whom he prescribed the opioid hydrocodone, to come in for a checkup the following day and wear a short skirt and no panties., Young was sometimes even more direct. Jackson, TN USA. Nurses are consistently rated higher in honesty and ethics than all other professions that Gallup asks about, by a wide margin, the polling firm said in a January 2020 survey. LeAnn said that Jeff stayed for hours, changing IV bags and chatting with him. So you got to be a good judge of character. Case 18-11780-BLS Doc 45 Filed 08/02/18 Page 1 of 1041. 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