Meet Linda Cheek, MD
Healthcare AdvocateBringing total health back to America.
Ending illegal government overreach into the doctor’s office.
In the course of her life, Dr. Cheek has experienced many trials. But through them all she held a belief in a purpose for her life–to help others achieve health through knowledge.
Linda’s Synopsis
Linda S. Cheek, MD is a retired family practice/pain management physician. Trained in conventional medicine, she found quickly in her practice that it doesn’t heal disease, so she studied multiple traditional (and futuristic) forms of healing medicine, from herbal to energetic and incorporated those into her practice.
Linda was born in Northern Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, graduating from George C. Marshall High School. She got her Bachelors in Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. She then became a secondary science teacher in her first life as she moved around the country and world as an Air Force wife. She also got a Masters in Guidance and Counseling at Phillips University.
Many of her years as an Air Force wife were spent in San Antonio, Texas. Deciding there to fulfill her dream of becoming a doctor, she got her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Finally achieving her ambition to become a doctor, she did her residency in Family Practice at Roanoke Carilion Hospital. She moved to rural Southwest Virginia to serve the underserved, and set up practice in Pulaski County, at the edge of Appalachia.
Through the course of her practice, she led many patients to healing their chronic diseases, from fibromyalgia to heart disease and diabetes. She cured the cause of people’s pain with prolotherapy. She cured addiction in those who were led to heal.
But healing is not in the heart of the government establishment, and attacking easy targets for money is. So Linda became a target. Read below for the REST OF THE STORY…
Linda’s Values & Beliefs
Christian in Beliefs and Action
Linda believes the Bible as truth. But she has also had ups and downs in her faith, which add to her story and most people can relate. She tries to live her faith, and trusts in the Lord to lead her in the direction she should go.
Jeremiah 29: 11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Health and Wellness
She understands how health is achieved and maintained. She walks her own talk to the best of her ability, and can help others achieve the same goal.
Traditional Medicine is the Key
Western Medicine is only 150 years old, but we have become so entrenched in it because of the economic advantage it brings to our country. However, it does not lead to healing, but maintaining disease. Why should they develop a cure for a disease, when that would mean the end of what they are selling? Think about it. Traditional medicine has been effective for thousands of years—and still is.
Healing is a Spiritual Choice
You can’t force someone to heal. And their choice is based on internal needs, not intellectual thinking. But, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear! Linda can be that teacher for you, your family, and your friends.
Learning
You’re never too old to learn. And hardly a day goes by that Linda doesn’t learn something new. And the neat thing about learning is that when one door opens, more doors are exposed behind it. Learning is exhilarating!
"L'Chaim!"--To LIfe!
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” Enjoy nature, get out and smell the roses! Go barefoot outdoors! Plant a garden! Climb a mountain! Do whatever brings you joy! Enjoy everything you do!
Linda’s Approach
Linda’s primary method to teach is through story telling. Her personal experiences including military wife, school teacher, physician, incarerated innocent, and alternative medicine provider gives her a wide range of possibilities to use to get her message across. Storytelling is powerful, and strikes home with everyone because they can relate.
Linda also trusts that divine discernment will tell her the points she needs to make for the audience that she is presenting to. Every speech she has given has provided her with personal testimonies that her words stike home with the participants.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." John A. Shedd
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain
Don’t wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it.—Unknown
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world." --Mahatma Gandhi
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
― Robert F. Kennedy
Linda is a Hero
What is a hero?
A hero is a person who does what is right, in spite of the consequences. Because of her alternative medical knowledge, Linda could validate a patient’s complaint of pain. Thirty percent of Americans have some type of chronic pain, and it is important that primary care physicians be allowed to treat it. Even though Southwest Virginia was one of the first districts to start prosecuting doctors for treating pain, Linda not only treated her patients’ pain, but healed it. Her patient base was primarily uninsured or government insured, two categories of what we now call the “expendable populations” in the eyes of the government. So in 2006 she was attacked. And for 2 years, after combing through her records, all the government could charge her with was $65 overpayment due to nurse practitioner billing, and later added the teaching of lifestyle changes that saved the government hundreds of thousands of dollars, as “unnecessary”. This is something she hopes to change through education.
Way Back to the Beginning
It was 4:30 in the afternoon. President Truman was walking down Pennsylvania Avenue in his inaugural parade. The television in the hospital maternity waiting room was broadcasting the event. A nurse approached a man engrossed in watching TV for the first time to announce the birth of his second daughter. He was more interested in the TV. The man was Linda’s father.
Now although the accounting of her birth could give her an inferiority complex, from her mother’s side of the story, she knew she was a gift. Her mother was a registered nurse. From working at St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Washington DC in the 1930’s, she had contracted tuberculosis while carrying Linda’s older sister. She was warned to not get pregnant again. However, her mother wanted another child. So she purposefully got pregnant and didn’t let it be known to the doctor until it was too late to do anything. She risked her own life to bring Linda into the world.
From that humble beginning, Linda was destined for a purpose. And with your help, it can be actualized.
"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog." --Harry S. Truman
Linda has been called a modern day Harry Truman. After reading the book of his life, she sees why. Harry did what was right because it was the right thing to do. He did not use the presidency for personal gain. In fact, he lost money personally during his presidency. But he had principles. Principles that seem to be lost today. During the first attack on her by the gtovernment, Linda’s lawyer, without knowing her history, even called her “Harry”.
“When even one American-who has done nothing wrong-is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth-then all Americans are in peril.”–Harry S. Truman
Linda's Mom, "ZIP"
“If you can’t do it right, don’t do it at all” — ZIP
Growing Up Years
At the age of six Linda knew her career choice. She told her mother she wanted to be a nurse just like her. Her mother, advanced for her time, replied:
“Linda, you’re smart enough to be a doctor.”
And so that was Linda’s goal. Most of Linda’s independence and strengths were learned from her mother.
Linda grew up on 18 acres of woods just inside what today is 495 in Fairfax County, Virginia. A tomboy, she spent her free time as a child climbing trees and building bridle paths through the woods for the horse she wanted but never got until she was an adult. She also learned many skills from her mother, from gardening, cooking and baking, to sewing and crafting. Her mother also taught her many home remedies for illnesses.
First Experience as an Avocate for Change
Throughout her life Linda has been “cursed” to be about 5-10 years ahead of her time and can’t understand why wrong isn’t righted. Here is an example.
When she was a sophomore at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, VA, they lived with a dress code. No pants could be worn to class or outside the dorm. She failed to see the need for a dress code and she worked with a group of students to get it changed. They went before the Board of Regents to have the code changed. At the end of their presentation, one of the regents said, “If you don’t like it here, why don’t you leave.” So she did. She transferred to the University of Texas at Austin. She never thought her efforts made a difference.
However, in 2012, during a very difficult time, her sister just happened to send her a newspaper article written about Mary Washington College. Linda found out in the article that the fall semester following their complaint to the board, the dress code was abolished. It took her 40 years, but she found out that thinking outside the box does make a difference.
Everything in Life Happens for a Purpose
On this day of your life, Linda, I believe God wants you to know…
…that any frustration you have is simply the result of
wrong thinking.
If you were thinking rightly you could not possibly
imagine that anything was going ‘wrong.’ You would
know that nothing in the Universe is working against
you. By definition, given Who You Are,
this is impossible.
Move, then, to gratitude when you encounter your
frustrations. And see every event as an Opportunity.
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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. —Brian Tracy
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You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
—Maya Angelou
First Career: Teacher
Her dream to become a doctor took a 20 year hiatus when she married a man she met at UT. He wanted to be a military pilot, so she gave up her career so he could follow his. She became a teacher, taught for 20 years, and enjoyed it. Her marriage was horrible, as he was a mentally abusing alcoholic. But the fruits of her marriage produced two wonderful sons.
She finally started to feel a little burned out with the lack of student interest in learning, so she decided to follow her dream and become a physician. She entered medical school at the age of 39, which led to the end of her marriage. You could say she gave up her MD for an MRS, and then gave up her MRS for an MD.
Love of Horses
Since childhood. Linda loved horses. Unable to have one as a child, she did achieve her dream as an adult. Her first horse, Honey, was a palomino quarterhorse. Her favorite breed was Arabian, but she ended up with Thoroughbreds, as she loved jumping and dressage. She competed in three-day eventing while living in Texas, and attempted to raise Thoroughbreds in Virginia, but the government ended that.
Enjoy Life When You Can..It Has an Expiration Date
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
How will you live it?
If the only tool you own is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Neither believe nor reject anything because any other person’s rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven. –Thomas Jefferson
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Hippocrates :
“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how—by his own thought—to derive benefit from his illnesses.”
“The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well.”
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”
“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.”
“It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.”
Medical School is Disappointing
One of the problems she had throughout medical school was the close-mindedness and ignorance of the medical establishment. From previous knowledge, she knew there were natural treatments for common conditions. When taught about these conditions in medical school, the usual comment from the professors was:
“There is nothing that can be done about that.”
Since she knew differently, she decided to study alternative medicine on her own as well as practice conventional. After two years of medical practice, she determined rather easily that conventional medicine doesn’t fix anything. It just maintains the condition as it worsens more gradually until you die.
That was not what she became a doctor to do. Linda was a healer.
A Healing Practice
Through her study of alternative medicine she learned that the body heals, just not with pills. She also learned that pain is real and needs to be treated. She became the only physician in Pulaski County, VA that was willing to stand up to the government and treat people’s pain. She knew that we could get to the cause of the pain and heal it. She developed a program of healing which cured disease, and got disabled people back to work. The thanks she got for saving the government hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in health costs and putting people back to work was that in 2006 her office was raided. She was charged with Medicare/Medicaid fraud. 2 years later, Feb 28, 2008, she pleaded guilty to one count Medicare/Medicaid fraud.
The Time is Always Right to Do What is Right.
“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” Julius Caesar
“The greatest evil is physical pain.” –Augustine of Hippo
“Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself.” — Albert Schweitzer
Target: Pain Doc
“When even one American-who has done nothing wrong-is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth-then all Americans are in peril.” –Harry S. Truman
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” –Martin Luther King
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
Illegal Search & Seizure
The warrant used to search her office in 2006 was Medicare/Medicaid fraud. So then how do you explain that most of the records seized were not government insured? The government was on a fishing expedition, and the door opener into any doctor’s office is insurance fraud. After 2 years of combing the records, all they could come up with was 6 office visits charged by the nurse practitioners while Linda wasn’t in the office. This entire experience is fictionalized, but basically a real accounting, in Linda’s book Target: Pain Doc.
Misconduct is the MO of the DOJ
The government had no plan to let Linda return to healing people. Attacking innocent doctors has become the modus operandi of the Department of Justice–for money, job security, and promotions. The rule of law is absent in our government, as exposed in Licensed to Lie by Sidney Powell.
But doctors continue to be naive and trusting, which makes them the perfect prey. They think that as long as they are following the rules of prescribing opioids, that they are safe. And that the doctors who have been attacked have done something illegal…until it happens to them.
Then the prosecutors use gross government misconduct of forced perjury and actual lawbreaking to indict and convict.
This needs to be exposed to the citizens of America–to bring justice back. Because when they finish with the doctors, they will find another profession to attack–and it might be yours.
"I'm safe. I'm not doing anything wrong." --any doctor
First they came for the mentally ill addicts, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a mentally ill addict.
Then they came for the empathetic prescribers, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not an empathetic prescriber.
Then they came for the Pharmacists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Pharmacist.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
“This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.”–Teddy Roosevelt
“There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.” –Teddy Roosevelt
"Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere" --Martin Luther King
“When even one American-who has done nothing wrong-is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth-then all Americans are in peril.”–Harry S. Truman
“We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Rest of the Story
Because the DEA had Linda targeted with a plan, they did not reinstate her DEA certificate as specified on their website. Linda had another licensed physician–Dr. Kathleen Schultz, DO–taking care of the patients requiring controlled substances.
After 18 months of waiting, the DEA finally denied Linda’s certificate application. In June, 2010 the DEA and US Attorney’s office investigators raided Linda’s office a second time on another fishing expedition. DEA agent Steven Tomaziefski, committed perjury to get Linda indicted.
But through regular visits to her home by the DEA and representatives from the US Attorney’s office, Kathy was persuaded to commit perjury to save her own neck.
Linda’s worthless attorney Rhonda Overstreet from Bedford, VA, appointed as a public defender, did nothing to defend her, and actually allowed the perjury to go uncontested, even though she had exculpatory evidence in her possession.
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Have you noticed that most doctors (98%, all of which are innocent) charged with criminal prescribing of controlled substances plead guilty? Why is that, when the government is using the Controlled Stubstance Act illegally aginst them?
Basically, our government has stacked the deck against anyone charged with a crime. They confiscate all assets the doctor owns, so that they do not have any means of defense. Public defenders’ jobs are government designed to get the victim to plea.
The other problem doctors face in court is the abject belief in the propaganda the government has created since 1999 for the express purpose of convicting innocent physicians–that opioids cause addiction.
So in Feburary, 2013, Linda was convicted of a crime she did not commit–using the DEA license of another practitioner.
Supreme Court is Ignored by the DOJ, with no repercussions
US v Roth: Deliberate perjury to the grand jury may result in dismissal of charges.
Linder v. US: “Direct control of medical practice is beyond the power of the Federal government. Congress therefore, cannot directly restrict the professional judgment of the physician or interfere with its free exercise in the treatment of disease. Federal power is delegated, and its prescribed limits must not be transcended even though the end seems desirable.”
Alderson FPC was no "Camp Cupcake"!
Rule #1: The staff is always right.
Rule #2: The inmate is always wrong.
Staff doesn’t have to follow the law because there is no repercussion–they are immune to prosecution.
SFF Hazelton--a Female FCI
Although the structure at SFF Hazelton was stricter, the environment was much better.
26 Months of Incarceration
Linda then spent her next 2 years in 2 prisons. The first was Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia–the same camp Martha Stewart was assigned to.
Alderson was the worst of all, and should be closed down. Inmates were abused by the staff, and only two rules are followed there. The first rule is “The staff is always right”. The second rule is “The inmate is always wrong.”
To keep this history page as short as possible, we won’t go into detailss here, but I can guarantee it would be a learning experience to have Linda talk about her prison experiences.
Because Linda was a thorn in the side of the law-breaking staff, she and her handicapped husband were set up by staff lies, and she was transferred to SFF Hazelton, in northern West Virginia. This, however, was a blessing. At SFF Hazelton, she was able to study the laws, learn the illegal action of the government, and form the basis for her work when she was released.
Linda’s Passions
Even before she was ever attacked by our rogue government, Linda was involved in support of the loved ones of the incarcerated. Kairos, a Christian organization taking Christ into prisons, has an organization–Kairos Outside–in which Linda became a council member. Her main contribution in the early years was as a musician for the weekends. Then she became the communication coordinator with the chaplains at the Virginia state prisons to get the word to the inmates. And then finally, she was voted in as council chair in Dec, 2019. So Linda can also speak to churches and local organizations about Kairos and Kairos Outside. Her husband, Bill, also participated in Kairos Inside, until his vision became too bad to participate.
"Listen, listen...Love, love"
The loved ones of the incarcerated are “in prison” too. Linda’s husband could speak to the truth of that.
An Angel By Your Side
Be an Angel
To order an angel to support Linda’s work, just click on the picture above.
Show Support for the Incarcerated Innocent
To order a friendship bracelet to wear in honor of an innocent incarcerated medical professional, click on the picture below:
Linda’s Heritage From Her Mother
Linda learned many things from her mother, including sewing and crochet. She made her first dress on a sewing machine at the age of 6. Although left-handed, she learned to crochet right-handed from her mom.
While at Alderson Federal Prison Camp, she learned the patterns for the angels pictured here. And she learned about friendship bracelets. So she brought these crafts out and now use them to remember the innocent incarcerated and the family and friends supporting them.
Go to the store for these and other helpful items to help support the cause.
Gardening
Another love she inherited from her mother is gardening. Throughout her life she has had a garden for vegetables. Even in the house with a tiny yard she lives in now, she uses the flowerbeds as her garden. Canning and freezing good non-GMO vegetables is a fantastic summer project for her.
Plant your Victory Garden as a visual expression of restoring healing in our health system and the rule of law in our government
Don’t Wait Any Longer. Start a Conversation With Linda Today!
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Linda Cheek, MD
6621 Williamson Rd, #7715
Roanoke, VA 24019
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