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Hanging with 4th Great Grandfather, Ebenezer Curtice (1760-1832) on his Flag Ceremony day, 27 AUG 2022, Webster, NY🇺🇸

”On the morning of April 19, 1775, Jacob Curtice, and his 5 sons, including 16 year old Ebenezer, left their unplowed field and hurried to join the march to Lexington. Ebenezer then joined the New Hampshire Continental Line…” Thank You Historian Cherie 

INSPIRED: 1992, the Tumelong Mission Clinic with Dr. Carpenter in the Black Homeland of Bophuthatswana, South Africa, via Bishop Tutu, Mozambiquen Civil War refugees starving and then AIDS hit the camp. Skin infections abound. All we had a case of PCNG donated by the British Embassy weekly. 

”Adapt and Overcome”

Walter Scott Curtice MD, LtCol RIANG/NYANG, USAF Air Combat Rescue Flight Surgeon, Charleston RI Police Surgeon and Medical Director of Emergency Management, St Joseph’s Family Medicine Residency Physician specializing in Chronic Pain Management and Opioid Use Disorder 

2019

1. Voted Doctor of the Year in South County, Rhode Island

2. Elected President of the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Association of Addiction Medicine. I presented a case where I tapered a motivated OUD patient totally off SL Buphrenorphine using SC Sublocade (depot) in order to get their top-secret security clearance. It was against the industry maxim “tell the patient they will always be on Suboxone”

3. Promoted to LtCol at the 143rd Air Wing, Quonset, RI. 

4. I had come to the rescue of the town Suboxone clinic and psychiatry practice of Dr Robin when he was ill for a year then passed away. Friends informed me I was nicknamed the “Druggie’s doctor” in town. I didn’t mind. I became quite defensive of both the Opioid Use Disorder AND Chronic Pain patients populations for being treated unfairly as subhumans by the medical system at large. 

Covid hit. I had drive up testing within a month. I got a call from Colonel Helene Bradley that the State Quarantine Site,

the Wyndham Hotel by TF Greene Airport was causing many personnel injuries due after a year and a half ofperfect storm came: my mother dying in a nursing home of Covid,

rescuing the RIANG MPs from the riotous homeless and state prisoner quarantined at gunpoint and interned in the TF Greene Wyndham Hotel State Covid Quarantine Site (through RIDOH Director Dr on my own accord, unpaid) and his new wife (divorced 2018, remarried 2019) went psychotic(she didn’t get pregnant by her 40th Birthday)and a former patient threatening Dr Curtice’s family if he didn’t give him oxycodone(he didn’t) and he was forced to separate from the Air National Guard due to new, uncontrolled diabetes with burning neuropathy. resulted(No Job here) Dr Curtice asked the State’s Physician Health program for assistance, maybe a covering provider so he could could rest for once… What resulted has now been a , four-year Kafka-like nightmare… He went for a voluntary three-day physicians health eval for alcohol abuse in Florida. There was no three-day eval scheduled and he was cut-off from his practice and family for first a week then two weeks. No one told him he had been automatically placed in their 90 day program (turned into a 127 days as they attempted to brain-wash him to endorse their ridiculous diagnosis of permanent, untreatable dementia. He explained to them from day one he needed to fill about 10 scripts per day and if he was cut-off there would be suicides and the Director laughed. His practice staff, patients and his family were in panic. The local ER’s were filled with both his addiction and chronic pain patients and suicides resulted.The Director, who he had insulted when they cut him off, using his roommate’s phone text from personally called the RIDOH to force his license surrender (lawsuit in the works). It took six months until the dementia diagnosis was reversed with no supporting evidence that it ever existed. The RIDOH then insides

A non-stop four-year fight of fought personal trials, family misfortunes and investigations culminating in redemption and recovery. license reinstatement process is still on-going though, with more Board-required retraining. Dr Curtice will return to medicine and,this time, with a healthier work-life balance and renewed purpose.

Goals

1. Medical License Reinstatement

2. Create a large and improved-designed Primary Care Clinic and even a FREE clinic (so many working poor are losing Medicaid) like the Shriners if funds are available

How I will lead the new practice:

• First visits up to an hour — bring your notes, your questions, even your Aunt Sally, who insists you have some rare disease
• No “factory medicine.” Patients and Providers will not rushed or distracted by typing (ambient AI scribes will handle notes).
• Every patient will be heard and treated cared for. 
• Every provider should end their day knowing they made a positive difference in the world.  High stress visit situations will have plenty of back-up at the ready at all times
• Veterans and first responders and their families will receive extra-special attention.

Why I Won’t Quit

I worked far too much and made mistakes in my life. But like many who want to give everything to their patients and country, I burned out during Covid. I was forced to surrender my license because I was misdiagnosed with early Dementia in 2022. I did learn I carried too many resentments. I went on a mental and physical health kick including quitting all drinking four years ago, lost 50 pounds, and confronted my struggles head-on. My “Rescue Complex” is in remission through three years of therapy (although I made a couple of my best saves as a Surf Rescuer in Westerly, a guy has gotta work)

I’ve also stood up for my chronic pain and opioid use disorder patients — even when the system abandoned them. Veterans, Purple Heart recipients, and ordinary families deserve providers willing to fight for their quality of life. I still believe in that mission.

A Lesson for the Next Generation

Never give up if your goals are worthy. Keep your sense of humor. Think critically. Be kind. And when it’s necessary — fight the good fight to the very end. Freedom isn’t free, and courage under fire is one of the greatest virtues we can pass on.

How You Can Help

I need your support to finish my retraining, reinstate my license, and launch this clinic. Every dollar gets me closer to:

• Returning to practice with integrity
• Creating a clinic where patients and providers both thrive
• Building a new model of primary care for the future

💙 Join me in this comeback mission. Donate today and share this page — together, we can create the care America deserves.

My speech (as Vice Commander of the Westerly American Legion Post 16) at the Westerly-Pawcatuck Memorial Day Veterans Parade was “Freedom isn’t Free” and a lack of core values is weakening America. Try your best to succeed without stepping on people along the way.

Dr. Pechers’s office on August 11, 2025

Who Am I?

My name is Dr. Walter Scott Curtice, MD. My journey in medicine began in 1992 after graduating from the U of D where I was on the Rugby Team, a proud brother of the Lamda Chi Alpha fraternity and Vice-president of the Anglican Student Fellowship. I then embarked as a medical missionary to South Africa, via Bishop Tutu, working in the Tumelong Mission refugee camp during the AIDS crisis (My philosophy of life can best be summed up in the Sermon on the Mount and the Desiderata). I then volunteered at the West Philadelphia Children’s AIDS Respice and later Kevin’s Community Center Free Clinic. For six years I conducted “shoe leather” infant mortality research with the Childquest2000 project at the University of Pennsylvania and the Nemours Childrens Hospital as well as atypical migraines research at Jefferson. I pursued my medical training at American University of the Caribbean and aced the Step I so I was allowed to attend Yale and Cornell (Weill) my third and fourth years where I earned honors. I then trained at New York Medical College’s Family Medicine Residency at St Joseph’s in Yonkers (best training in the world!) to become Board Certified in Family Medicine. In my third year, 2008, in the middle of two wars, I joined up as a USAF Air Combat Rescue Flight Surgeon with the Air National Guard (106th Air Rescue Wing for five years then and later the 143rd Air Wing for seven more). I volunteered and worked at several high intensity jobs and created my own private practice Quality Medicine LLC. 

Over the years, I’ve cared for thousands of patients — from newborns to veterans, from underserved families to those struggling with addiction and chronic pain. In 2019, I was honored when voted “2019 Best Doctor in South County, RI”, and in 2021 I received the USAF Commendation for Meritorious Service. I had to separate from the guard due to uncontrolled diabetes with polyneuropathy during the COVID chaos where I rescued everyone I could but I could not save my mother in the nursing home. I then had a breakdown and asked for help through the State’s Physician’s Health Committee. This resulted in the worst case of malpractice for profit at a rehab in Florida. They kept me 127 days in a quiet Hell, against my will, where I was the only patient out of 90 who wanted to attend church and they stopped me from contacting RI, my staff and my abandoned patients including 200 of the highest risk chronic pain and addiction patients. Then one committed suicide so they kept me an extra 37 days until  I endorse their new diagnosis I had multifactorial, progressive, untreatable Dementia. It took six months to get it reversed but then the RI Board investigated me for anonymous allegations I was an evil drug dealer treating chronic pain patients. After defending myself the Board said I needed therapy for my “Rescue Complex” and some type of formal “Retraining”. The board has refused to 

Now, my mission is clear: to return to practice and build a better, pro-patient, pro-provider primary care clinic model. A system where patients are truly heard, providers aren’t rushed or buried in paperwork, and where Veterans and families alike receive the care they deserve.

This journey has taught me resilience, humility, and the importance of never giving up on your mission. With your support, I’ll not only return to practice, but also create a clinic that can serve as a model for the future of medicine.

Westerly Memorial Day Parade 26MAY2025

Funny Story #1 

”Taylor Swift owes me money.” was my favorite line at Air Force Survival School (SERE, Fairchild AFB, 2017) and sometimes the slaps to my hooded-head would stop, the blasting ISIS rap music was turned down, and the interrogator would break character and say “What?”. She doesn’t really but the head of her security detail, from Foxwoods I think, visited my office and did hire me to be on-call for her, now iconic, Fourth of July party in Watch Hill. I did have Bill, at Seaside Pharmacy, get me three voice-directed Narcan auto-injectors for the event I wanted to drop off. I was at the ready, all weekend, in case any bad actors tried to roofie America’s most beautiful squad. Oh well, no calls. I never followed up for payment but thoroughly enjoyed the story. Taylor,  if you are out there, my best mission is yet to come. I could cover all the medical needs of your guests in the future and, if you want, start a free clinic in your name for anyone, I mean Anyone, who needs help. 

Good luck and God Bless!

”Doc Scott”

Walter Scott Curtice MD

Family Medicine Physician, USAF LtCol, Flight Surgeon, Police Surgeon, Medical Director of Emergency Management