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A Kansas man is suing the doctor who treated his wife’s pain that lead to his wife’s fentanyl overdose in 2014. This is now the third suit against the doctor in Johnson county brought on by former patients seeking damages due to imprudent prescribing. Dr. Steven Simon was reportedly the top pharmaceutical industry speaker in…
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