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Student loan debt default can cause you to lose your professional license in texas

March 02, 2020Posts

When Student Loan Debt Default Could Cause You to Lose Your Professional License in Texas

Student loan debt has been in the news a lot for the past few years, as the cost of getting a higher education has skyrocketed well beyond the rate of salary inflation. Unfortunately, for quite a while a number of states—including Texas—have had laws on the books that permit licensing agencies to strip professionals of their licenses if they fall behind on payments of their student loans. Our state’s Sunset Advisory Commission back in 1988...

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Licensure consequences when an attorney is accused of a crime

March 01, 2020Posts

Licensure Consequences When an Attorney is Accused of a Crime

As an attorney, you have put in a considerable amount of time and energy toward becoming a licensed professional, including law school and passing the Texas Bar Exam. Being accused of a crime risks losing all that you have worked so hard for. Yet when an attorney has been charged with a crime, particularly a crime that the State Bar has determined to be one whose commission is germane to a lawyer’s fitness to practice...

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The risks of accusations of over prescription of medication

February 29, 2020Posts

The Risks of Accusations of Over-Prescription of Medication

It’s a hot topic in society at the moment: the over-prescription of medications. With deaths due to abuse of prescription painkillers occurring at a troubling rate—and even attributed in popular media to the death of the television character Roseanne Connors—it makes sense for our governments to keep an eye on what’s going on. But, as so often happens with any high-profile issue of grave public concern, it is far too easy for things to fall...

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Murkiness in the standards of care and maintaining your dental license

February 28, 2020Posts

Murkiness in the Standards of Care and Maintaining Your Dental License

The concept of “minimum standard of care” has gone a long way toward causing damage to the livelihood of many Texas dentists. Particularly where the standards of care as established in guiding documents are murky or unclear, dentists can find themselves being held to what appeared to be only recommendations, with their livelihoods on the line. The minimum standard of care is a legal concept that basically describes the quality and type of treatment that...

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Protecting your medical license when a patient falsely claims improper relationship

February 27, 2020Posts

Protecting Your Medical License When a Patient Falsely Claims Improper Relationship

Ever since the days of Hippocrates—who included in his famous physician’s oath the words, “In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction, and especially from the pleasures of love with women or with men […]” — the concept of improper relationships in doctor-patient interactions has been a topic of concern. In today’s society, we may be seeing...

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The large scale downside to overzealous medical board discipline

February 26, 2020Posts

The Large-Scale Downside to Overzealous Medical Board Discipline

While the Texas Medical Board, like other medical boards across the nation, has been established with the explicit goal of promoting and ensuring patient safety, there are times its actions go too far. A state’s citizens are safest when the state has a proper ratio of fully-practicing physicians to the number of potential patients. Which is to say, where disciplinary actions taken by medical boards serve to either dissuade qualified professionals from becoming practicing physicians...

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Steps that can keep manipulative patients from endangering your medical license

February 25, 2020Posts

Steps that Can Keep Manipulative Patients from Endangering Your Medical License

Every medical professional will, in the course of performing their profession, encounter patients who are, for lack of a better term, manipulative. Often these cases will involve either people who are in search of attention via misguided means, or perhaps (in a distressing sign of our times) attempting to get their hands on excess or unnecessary narcotic medications. The problem is that manipulative people may go to extremes in order to get what they want—up...

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How can an attorneyu2019s handling of evidence endanger their license

February 24, 2020Posts

How Can an Attorney’s Handling of Evidence Endanger Their License?

The handling of evidence is a sacrosanct thing in the field of law. A case is generally made up of evidence and the narratives put forth by each side based on that evidence with the purpose of showing that their client’s case is the more legitimate side in the matter. Which is to say that where each side in a case is building a metaphorical structure, the evidence at issue within the case is the...

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What constitutes violation of duty of care for attorneys

February 23, 2020Posts

What Constitutes Violation of Duty of Care for Attorneys?

Our fellow Texas attorneys know well just how much work goes into qualifying for a law license in the state of Texas. And rightly so—the practice of law is laden with responsibilities and with the requirement that attorneys adhere to a high standard of conduct in every aspect of life. An accusation that one has failed to meet this standard of conduct can mean disbarment by the Texas State Bar—and a corresponding loss of livelihood....

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Prescriptions and family members a danger to your medical license

February 22, 2020Posts

Prescriptions and Family Members: a Danger to Your Medical License

While it is permitted for Texas physicians to both treat and prescribe medicines to their family members, as well as to friends or employees, the Texas Medical Board is likely to look askance in particular situations. One such situation—perhaps the most publicly scrutinized at the moment—is the prescription of controlled substances. The Texas Medical Board has established rules governing the prescription of controlled substances to family members and others close to a physician in Chapter...

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