Listen to more stories on audm. Updated at p. ET on January 28, Video collages by Sara Serna. Y ou need to be a certain kind of person to want a reality-TV show about yourself. Jeffrey Young was one of those people. In , Young, who was 42 at the time, invited a cameraman to shoot a pilot episode about his life as a nurse practitioner in Jackson, Tennessee. But Young was eager to let the world know that he was no typical nurse practitioner.
Throughout Jackson, he had created for himself a reputation as a rock-and-roll renegade, happily showing off his piercings, tattoos, and goatee. He blasted heavy metal at his private practice and filled his Instagram feed with photos of himself smoking cigars.
In his frequent social-media updates, he would drink and flip off the camera. Though he was not an M. His vision was, evidently, to one day launch a reality series of the same name.
In one scene, he and his best friend, a pharmaceutical representative named John Kevin Phillips, broadcast themselves on the video-streaming app Periscope. Young grabs them and takes a big whiff. The waiting room often overflowed with patients.
He exhibited a certain tenderness as he filled syringes and sutured skin. For the cosmetically minded, he hosted alcohol-fueled Botox parties. But the way in which Young gained some of these fans has become the focus of a federal court case. In April , h e was indicted on drug-trafficking charges, along with five other medical providers in Jackson, two of whom were the supervising physicians Young, as a nurse practitioner, was required to have.
