Dr. Feel-good prescribed pills for sex. Say what?

She never made good on the threats, and Thota went on practicing. Many of the patients he treated didn’t even choose him as a doctor; he was randomly assigned as their anesthesiologist in the hospital.

One such patient, a woman referred to as M.R. in the indictment, met Thota after an ambulance took her to a local hospital for withdrawal-related seizures. Thota prescribed her methadone, and called her after she was released from the hospital. M.R. began attending his practice for more methadone, but quickly ran through her prescriptions. Thota allegedly agreed to give her more medication if she’d meet him for lunch at Denny’s.

The meetings became a pattern, with M.R. meeting Thota in his car to trade handjobs for painkillers. M.R. felt as though if she did not agree to his demands, he’d stop filling her prescription, she told investigators.

But she couldn’t risk going to another doctor. Thota had allegedly upped her prescription over the course of their relationship. In the hospital, she’d been on a daily dose of 40 milligrams of methadone. Now she was on 60. When she finally ended all ties with the doctors, she lost her prescription and began using heroin.

M.R.’s was a classic case in Thota’s office. A notorious over-prescriber, Thota was in deep trouble with the Medical Board of California at the time of his arrest. After three formal sanctions, which accused him of everything from tax evasion to gross medical negligence, Thota was slapped with a seven-year suspension in March 2016.

He could still run his practice—but anyone who read the medical board’s 47-page smackdown would look for another doctor. The document accuses Thota of repeated negligence, prescribing pain medication and upping doses “without any rationale or documentation.”

Multiple clients developed deep addictions, including one man who entered the practice complaining of lower back pain and wound up unresponsive in the street, after consuming a morphine equivalent daily dose greater than 4,000 milligrams from 3½ years.

At least 15 others died on the medication, earning Thota a dubious reputation in California. (“We tell them every time when they come for follow-up: This medication can kill you,” he said during a 2013 NPR interview on overmedication. “You know that, right? But I will say it so many times: Be careful with them and use them carefully.”)

Even before the deaths, there were warning signs. An anonymous reviewer in January 2012 described a frightening encounter with a paranoid doctor who touched her inappropriately, then accused her of being a Drug Enforcement Administration agent.

“I have NEVER EVER been treated as poorly by a Doctor as I have Dr. Thota,” the reviewer wrote. “I went in to ask a simply question of Dr. Thota and was screamed at and called names I won’t repeat here. I am a stable, mature, great communicator and never lost my cool. This man has issues. He touched me inappropriately, went on and on about the DEA and how he thought I was a DEA person (WHAT)!!???”

The reviewer claimed Thota has “severe issues,” and left prospective patients with a warning.

“RUN from his office…..no one should have to put up with his unprofessional manner. I wish I had a tape recorder with me with all the things he said to me, including…’you look just like someone I dated and I loved her so much’ I could go on. I have never filled out a form like this and hope I never have to again.”

Thota’s bail has been set at $100,000, but he still has his medical license. He’s barred from writing prescriptions for women without the approval of a medical partner. A bad reputation hasn’t stopped him from practicing in the past.

“Somebody has to take care of these people,” he said in a 2012 interviewwith the Los Angeles Times. “And I am the chosen one.”

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