Dr. Charles Adams built his Tennessee practice by telling patients a controversial IV therapy he provides was good for everything from headaches to heart disease. So when that state’s medical board threatened to crack down, he found a work-around.
He moved his practice 15 miles down the road to Georgia. In Ringgold, where he occupies two spaces in a repurposed shopping mall, he has been free to treat patients as he sees fit, without interference from state regulators.
Georgia has no official welcome mat for providers like Adams who offer unproven or risky procedures, but the state has become a safe harbor for them, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation has found…