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[RustedFox]

Retired doc busted with drugs, guns and women aboard 80-foot party yacht off Nantucket has terminal cancer

Scott Burke, the 69-year-old retired doctor who police say they busted with more than 40 grams of cocaine and 14 grams of ketamine last week, was holding a party.

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[RustedFox]

I mean, at least he went offshore to be private about it.
All over the west coast, people just do drugs anywhere they want - and use our tax dollars for "new crackpipes" and such.

 

[BoardingDoc]

Retired doc busted with drugs, guns and women aboard 80-foot party yacht off Nantucket has terminal cancer

Scott Burke, the 69-year-old retired doctor who police say they busted with more than 40 grams of cocaine and 14 grams of ketamine last week, was holding a party.

www.foxnews.com

I saw this posted a day or two ago in the pain forums under a heading like: "Of course it had to be a pain doc."

I'm not bashing pain medicine, in fact I strongly considered it for a time, but there is certainly a measurable subset of that specialty that likes to get arrested in rather flamboyant ways.

 

[VA Hopeful Dr]

I saw this posted a day or two ago in the pain forums under a heading like: "Of course it had to be a pain doc."

I'm not bashing pain medicine, in fact I strongly considered it for a time, but there is certainly a measurable subset of that specialty that likes to get arrested in rather flamboyant ways.

Because if they're shady they can make enough money to do stuff like this.

 

[ScepticSkeksis]

Why the feds gotta ruin a good party???

 

[Birdstrike]

I'm not bashing pain medicine,… but there is certainly a measurable subset of that specialty that likes to get arrested in rather flamboyant ways.

Dr. Burke is an orthopedic surgeon, not a Pain physician.

His LinkedIn

Penn State Ortho Residency 1976-1980

Also, news article talking about him doing amputations in Haiti.

Eyewitness to Hell: Dr. Scott Burke on Haiti's medical nightmare

Just a few hours after touching down in Denver, after a week of performing emergency amputations in a makeshift operating room in Port-au-Prince, local surgeon Scott Burke was trying to catch up on his sleep and rid his mind of the grim images of the devastation in Haiti. Most of...

www.westword.com

 

[Birdstrike]

@RustedFox

Based on the article, please change thread title to Hookers, Drugs and Guns

-Sincerely,

Warren Zevon

 

[Apollyon]

What happened to "slander"?

 

[Birdstrike]

What happened to "slander"?

Too hyperbolic

 

[DrDrummer]

I don't know much about cocaine in terms of the amounts people use, but isn't 40 grams a *lot* for a party with a couple of your bros on a boat? And 14 grams of ketamine? This guy goes hard. Classic Florida man.

 

[Birdstrike]

I don't know much about cocaine in terms of the amounts people use, but isn't 40 grams a *lot* for a party with a couple of your bros on a boat? And 14 grams of ketamine? This guy goes hard. Classic Florida man.

Reports are that he is terminally ill. Wants to go out ridin' dirty, I guess.

 

[gutonc]

Reports are that he is terminally ill. Wants to go out ridin' dirty, I guess.

Best chemo regimen ever is R-CHIP
Roxanol
Cocaine
Hawaii
Ice Cream
Prednisone

 

[thegenius]

Retired doc busted with drugs, guns and women aboard 80-foot party yacht off Nantucket has terminal cancer

Scott Burke, the 69-year-old retired doctor who police say they busted with more than 40 grams of cocaine and 14 grams of ketamine last week, was holding a party.

www.foxnews.com

 

[southerndoc]

When I was a paramedic, there was an ER doc (FP trained) who was known as a party animal. He had a large boat, a "banana farm" in Nicaragua, and ended up busted with a bunch of cocaine. Rumors still fly about him. He was an excellent emergency physician, but I now know why he had so much energy.

 

[Birdstrike]

When I was a paramedic, there was an ER doc (FP trained) who was known as a party animal. He had a large boat, a "banana farm" in Nicaragua, and ended up busted with a bunch of cocaine. Rumors still fly about him. He was an excellent emergency physician, but I now know why he had so much energy.

I just googled this and read his story. Wild.

The chick (30 years younger) he used to shoot up dope with, OD’d and died a few years later, btw. Fentanyl.

He have an active LinkedIn page, btw. Lol

 

[thegenius]

why have guns aboard the boat?

Hookers and Blow are just fine. If he has terminal cancer and wants to go out partying, fine.

What are you going to do with a gun on board? Shoot it while doing hookers and blow? Just leave it at home.

Traumatic cardiac arrest is more messy than atraumatic, in my mind.

 

[Birdstrike]

why have guns aboard the boat?

…the porn

Partiers on Nantucket yacht ‘had been making pornographic films’ before doc’s arrest: report

The party yacht of the retired doctor who was busted for drugs and guns played host to a weekend of porno filming, according to a newly obtained police document that revealed more details about the…

nypost.com

 

[thegenius]

…the porn

Partiers on Nantucket yacht ‘had been making pornographic films’ before doc’s arrest: report

The party yacht of the retired doctor who was busted for drugs and guns played host to a weekend of porno filming, according to a newly obtained police document that revealed more details about the…

nypost.com

was the doc in the porn films? Gosh I hope so.

holding a gun doing blow while watching others do porn on your boat...that doesn't seem fun.

 

[Apollyon]

…the porn

Partiers on Nantucket yacht ‘had been making pornographic films’ before doc’s arrest: report

The party yacht of the retired doctor who was busted for drugs and guns played host to a weekend of porno filming, according to a newly obtained police document that revealed more details about the…

nypost.com

Dude, what? The vast, vast majority of porn movies aren't made at gunpoint. And, the ones that are, aren't for sale or easily available online - at all.

 

[Birdstrike]

Dude, what? The vast, vast majority of porn movies aren't made at gunpoint. And, the ones that are, aren't for sale or easily available online - at all.

Don't ask me, man. I'm not up on how terminally ill, outrageously rich, orthospine guys roll, but that's apparently how this guy did.

 

[Birdstrike]

was the doc in the porn films? Gosh I hope so.

Maybe he was in the films and planned on rewatching them in the afterlife.

 

[dozitgetchahi]

Best chemo regimen ever is R-CHIP
Roxanol
Cocaine
Hawaii
Ice Cream
Prednisone

Prednisone?

 

[gutonc]

Prednisone?

Prednisone makes everyone feel better.

Also, R-CHOP is a real chemo regimen and the P is for prednisone.

But when you have to explain the joke….

 

[Apollyon]

Don't ask me, man. I'm not up on how terminally ill, outrageously rich, orthospine guys roll, but that's apparently how this guy did.

Someone asked about guns, and you said porn. That's on you.

 

[Apollyon]

Prednisone makes everyone feel better.

Also, R-CHOP is a real chemo regimen and the P is for prednisone.

But when you have to explain the joke….

Isn't that guy a rheumatologist, too? With respect, I thought Prednisone to them is like a hammer to a carpenter, or a wrench to a plumber?

 

[PTPoeny]

Isn't that guy a rheumatologist, too? With respect, I thought Prednisone to them is like a hammer to a carpenter, or a wrench to a plumber?

Maybe he was making the joke that the doc in question apparently chose porn as the P in his terminal regimen.

 

[Birdstrike]

When asked, "What would you do if you were given 6 weeks to live?" he answered, "Ecstasy, cocaine, hookers and the 2nd Amendment."

 

[thegenius]

When asked, "What would you do if you were given 6 weeks to live?" he answered, "Ecstasy, cocaine, hookers and the 2nd Amendment."

I would drop the ectasy. Just stick with cocaine.
I would probably drop the gun too. I don't want to get shot
I would probably just ask for hookers, but I guess you gotta have some coke there too, so they come along for the ride.

So hookers and blow it is!

 

[ScepticSkeksis]

I would drop the ectasy. Just stick with cocaine.
I would probably drop the gun too. I don't want to get shot
I would probably just ask for hookers, but I guess you gotta have some coke there too, so they come along for the ride.

So hookers and blow it is!

Also sildenafil. Lots of Sildenafil. It's not just for Boomers anymore!

 

[thegenius]

Also sildenafil. Lots of Sildenafil. It's not just for Boomers anymore!

Oh yea. And the list can go on and on...but this is a public forum with expectations of decorum.

 

[ScepticSkeksis]

Oh yea. And the list can go on and on...but this is a public forum with expectations of decorum.

The Sildenafil is for......blood pressure. What did you think?

 

[TooMuchResearch]

Best chemo regimen ever is R-CHIP
Roxanol
Cocaine
Hawaii
Ice Cream
Prednisone

Thanks, taking notes for hopefully never needed future reference.

 

[dozitgetchahi]

Isn't that guy a rheumatologist, too? With respect, I thought Prednisone to them is like a hammer to a carpenter, or a wrench to a plumber?

I don’t even know where to begin with that lol.

First, I and most other “modern era” rheumatologists don’t use steroids liberally like our predecessors did. It’s not 1985 anymore - we’ve had 40 years of progress in treating our diseases in more productive ways, and we try to avoid the diabetes, 50lb weight gain, osteoporosis etc.

Also, some (actually plenty) of people get dysphoric, have insomnia, etc on corticosteroids and don’t like taking them. A very significant portion of my new patients tell me “I don’t want steroids” at the first visit. The idea that “steroids make everyone feel better” is kind of a myth.

 

[Apollyon]

I don’t even know where to begin with that lol.

First, I and most other “modern era” rheumatologists don’t use steroids liberally like our predecessors did. It’s not 1985 anymore - we’ve had 40 years of progress in treating our diseases in more productive ways, and we try to avoid the diabetes, 50lb weight gain, osteoporosis etc.

Also, some (actually plenty) of people get dysphoric, have insomnia, etc on corticosteroids and don’t like taking them. A very significant portion of my new patients tell me “I don’t want steroids” at the first visit. The idea that “steroids make everyone feel better” is kind of a myth.

I wasn't throwing shade, dude. I didn't get the same reaction from pts with respect to steroids. The insomnia is part of the effect, though, isn't it?

 

[dchristismi]

Nah... Steroids are HPM's groove. We tend to throw steroids at everyone, not rheum. Bone pain from mets? Dexamethasone! Need a little appetite stimulus? Dex it is! (But mostly in the mornings, due to the insomnia.) And I do prescribe ice cream. I love the look I get when I tell people they can have ice cream for breakfast if they want it. Heck, ice cream RIGHT NOW if you want it.

And FWIW I distinctly remember a dude from my EM days with a very unusual C1 lesion... who would probably pith himself if he sneezed wrong. And one of my colleagues musing that if HE were that patient, he'd probably opt for the "hookers and blow" vs neurosurgery option.

 

[The Knife & Gun Club]

I don’t even know where to begin with that lol.

First, I and most other “modern era” rheumatologists don’t use steroids liberally like our predecessors did. It’s not 1985 anymore - we’ve had 40 years of progress in treating our diseases in more productive ways, and we try to avoid the diabetes, 50lb weight gain, osteoporosis etc.

Also, some (actually plenty) of people get dysphoric, have insomnia, etc on corticosteroids and don’t like taking them. A very significant portion of my new patients tell me “I don’t want steroids” at the first visit. The idea that “steroids make everyone feel better” is kind of a myth.

Yea no shade at all a good rheum is worth their weight in gold to a hospital system.

In the ED we see more de-compensated cases where steroids come up more often as a way to get the person back on track. The well-cared for/non-exacerbated cases aren’t coming to the ED.

I had a fascinating chat with a hepatology/GI guy the other day where I found out apparently if you keep someone’s diuretic regimen tightly controlled they don’t show up to the ER needing a paracentesis every week. But I never see those so didn’t even know they exist. Who knew!