pill mill | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Aclandestineoperation where a medical workerillicitlyoffersprescriptionmedicationto patients in exchange forbribes.2011, Jane Musgrave,The Palm Beach Post, 4 men sentenced in pill mill scheme,linkFour men who helped Jeff and Chris George run their lucrativepill millsreceived sentences ranging from 9 months to 14 years today in federal court.2014, JB McMunn, M.D.,Naked Capitalism, The Stealthy, Ugly Growth of Corporatized Medicine,linkNeedless to say, the professional bullying from the primary care physicians (PCPs) and the [hospital] administrators to run both apill milland a needle jockey business was tremendous. I resisted the entire time, but god it wore me out. [From a pain specialist for a large multi-specialty group.]

Examples:

EN: Well, if it's a pill mill, cameras would only spook the cash customers.
ES: Bueno, si fuera una fábrica de pastillas, las cámaras solo asustaría a quien venga a buscar efectivo.
EN: So, the pill mill was Grant's idea.
ES: Así que las prescripciones de narcóticos fueron idea de Grant.
EN: He needed a straw man for the pill mill. Laurie was right.
ES: Necesitaba un testaferro que le prescribiera los narcóticos.
EN: Who's been successfully hiding the millions you've made from your pill mill by paying for the loan on your building in cash, paying for all the upgrades.
ES: Quienes han estado ocultando con éxito los millones que has logrado hacer con las prescripciones de narcóticos, pagando el préstamo de su casa en efectivo, pagando todas las reformas.
EN: A glass-and-chrome monument to pain built on the backs of Toussaint and the thousands of sufferers that you forced him to pass through your pill mill.
ES: Un bonito monumento de cristal y cromo al dolor ... hecho a espaldas de Toussaint.. y de cientos de pacientes con dolor a los que obligabas a pasar por tus recetas.
EN: What kind of pill mill is this guy running?
ES: ¿Pero a qué está jugando este tío?
EN: If your clinic was a pill mill and Hallie found out about it and someone killed her to shut her up, now... right now... would be the time to tell us.
ES: Si su clínica vendía fármacos y Hallie se enteró de ello y alguien la asesinó para callarla, ahora... ahora mismo... sería tiempo de decírnoslos.
EN: [Scoffs] It's not a pill mill.
ES: No se venden fármacos.
EN: So before I ask Mr. Walzer what he knows about this pill mill, here's something to refresh his memory.
ES: Así que antes de que pregunte al señor Walzer... que sabe sobre este nido de píldoras, aquí hay algo para refrescar su memoria.
EN: They're using your employer to squeeze your balls so they can nail the pill mill doctor.
ES: Utilizan a tu empleador para apretarte las tuercas... y así enganchar al médico del nido de pastillas.
EN: They had video surveillance footage at the pill mill.
ES: Tenían vídeo vigilancia en el nido de pastillas.
EN: Barry says I should testify against the pill mill doctor.
ES: Barry dice que debería testificar contra el médico del nido de pastillas.
EN: He just got busted for operating a pill mill in Newark.
ES: Él sólo fue arrestado para el funcionamiento de un molino de píldora en Newark.
EN: Jackie: What's a pill mill?
ES: Jackie: ¿Qué es una planta de la píldora?
EN: Sweetie, you don't know what a pill mill is?
ES: Cariño, no sabes lo que es un molino de píldora es? ?

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