My case began in April, 2022, when I became the victim of a false positive drug test. My doctor, in Port Charlotte, Florida, shipped my urine sample (along with other patients’ samples) all the way to San Diego, California. Six days later, Precision Diagnostics reported to my doctor that I tested positive for HEROIN. My doctor immediately dismissed me as a patient. My pleadings with him that I did not use heroin fell on deaf ears. I went to an independent drug testing lab up in Sarasota where they took samples of my hair and my fingernails. Unlike a urine test, these tests look back in time up to a year. Of course, both tests showed no trace of heroin. I sent the test results to my doctor, but he refused to reinstate me. He said that he could not ignore the test results from the California lab.

I am legally disabled and suffer from debilitating and inoperable pain. Because I am not a candidate for surgery, my only option for relief was pain medication, which allowed me to sort of function on a daily basis. I called every doctor in the entire region who prescribed this kind of medication. They all wanted my medical records, and the doctor’s dismissal letter, which stated that the sole reason he didn’t want to be my doctor anymore was “use of heroin”. None of these doctors were willing to see me as a new patient, so I have suffered a great deal since then.

We contacted numerous medical malpractice Attorneys, and they all said, this is not the kind of medical malpractice case they handle. We interviewed private litigation Attorneys, but none of them would take the case on a contingency, meaning we would have to spend $400 an hour for countless hours of work. We simply didn’t have that kind of money, so we proceeded “Pro Se”, which means, represent yourself, without an Attorney. It was just my husband and me, now up against not one but two of the best white collar criminal defense law firms that money could buy in the entire State of Florida. Me and my husband, against 7 top notch attorneys and about 15 paralegals. Our case was filed in Charlotte County as case 22000870CA. Of course the judge ruled against us. He said we had to sue the doctor for medical malpractice. As for the lab, the judge ruled that my damages were “strictly emotional”, as if losing access to health care and made to suffer from severe physical pain was somehow just emotional, and barred by some archaic Florida thing called the “impact rule”.

We filed a “Petition for Writ of Certiorari” on the doctor group, which was case 6D23-1716, in the 6th district Court of Florida. The law firm assigned the top appeals attorney in the State. After we filed, he told us that he is not required to respond, unless the Court ordered him to. As a minor victory, the Court did enter an Order requiring him to respond. We appealed the decision against the lab, that was case 6D23-0982, also in the 6th district. Of course the judges ultimately ruled against us. We tried to amend our original complaint, arguing that both parties violated my rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act and also the Affordable Care Act, but the judge said no.

There were devastating consequences for the Doctor, Dr. Keith Williams, who the Group fired the next day after that case was closed. He had operated the Group’s most lucrative office, and they closed down the entire office with no back up plan, dismissing hundreds of pain management patients (something we were not happy to hear, because countless innocent people were made to suffer because of this). Today, Dr. Williams is working as a doctor at a seniors facility up in Venice.

In October, 2024, the Department of Justice along with the Attorney Generals of 42 States, including Florida, announced a $27 million dollar settlement with Precision Diagnostics after accusing them of excessive and unnecessary testing, ripping off the American taxpayers over the course of more than a decade, and also charging them with violations of the anti-kickback statutes, for illegally supplying the doctors offices with free testing cups. Which, by the way, were also defective, leaking all over the place.

We still have not given up on our Quest for Justice. In May, 2026, I filed a new lawsuit in Sarasota County against that lab for product liability. We’re up against the same top white collar criminal defense law group. We’ll see how it goes. We will never give up. That is why I started Drug Test News Radio and plan to introduce a new channel in the near future.