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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  CHENEY DR. HOOKED FOR YEARS Wed Jul 07 2004 22:15:34 ET For years after Vice President Dick Cheney's personal internist, Gary Malakoff, had supposedly quit abusing prescription painkillers, the team of doctors monitoring his recovery remained oblivious to the fact that the high-profile doctor was still drug dependent, the WASHINGTON POST is planning to front on Thursday, newsroom sourcs tell DRUDGE. Reporter Rick Weiss has obtained legal papers and medical records. Cheney Doctor's Relapse Into Drug Use Undetected Records show that treatment team members at George Washington University Medical Center, who conducted frequent medical and psychiatric examinations to watch for signs of relapse, may even have facilitated Malakoff's problem by their deferential treatment, raising questions about the suitability of having medical center doctors overseeing one of their own. The psychiatrist and neurologist overseeing care for Malakoff -- then the director of the medical center's internal medicine division -- repeatedly prescribed the drugs the internist was known to have been abusing, medical charts show. Developing... |
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