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December 02, 2020Posts

What Effects Can a Medical Board Investigation Have on a Medical Practice in Texas?

They’ve been compared to a “black cloud” over a medical practice. They’ve been called “detrimental,” even when they resulted in findings of no harm done. They are the scourge of a Texas Medical Board investigation—which, when prosecuted by an overzealous board, can have extremely ill effects upon the careers of those they target. In fact, while most medical professionals fear medical malpractice suits (and this is the type of action the popular culture is more...

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December 01, 2020Posts

Defending Nurses Accused of Acting Outside their Scope of Authority

The importance of nurses in the lives of all Texans cannot be overstated (particularly now). And the number of responsibilities they carry in providing their patients with care are nearly too many to count. They are the heart, the lifeblood, of the medical profession, because of the frequency and depth of their contact with the patients the profession exists to serve. Still, there are limits to the actions nurses are permitted to take since, for...

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November 30, 2020Posts

When a Texas Physician May Choose to Forfeit Their License

Texas physicians are subject to regulation by the Texas Medical Board. The TMB oversees the licensure and the maintenance of licensure of Texas physicians, putatively on behalf of the public. This means the TMB is charged with setting and enforcing standards, as well as holding doctors to laws passed by the state and federal legislatures. Among the means the Board utilizes for this oversight is the accepting, processing, and investigating of complaints made against physicians...

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November 28, 2020Posts

Protecting Your License to Practice Real Estate in Texas

Being a realtor, it seems to us, must be a career of passion. Realtors put in a great deal of work on many clients over many hours, including working evenings and weekends, in their attempts to connect the right people with the right homes. Despite all this hard work, they at times may go without receiving even a single paycheck for months, which makes it hurt all the more when they learn that a complaint...

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November 27, 2020Medical License Defense Posts

When a Texas Nursing Home is Faced With a Complaint

Nursing home facilities within the State of Texas that receive notification that a complaint has been filed against them with the Texas Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are up against a wall. The Department takes complaints very seriously. It tends to approach complaints as though they were true from the outset. This places the burden on the nursing home facility to prove that it is innocent of any wrongdoing. The facilities that are...

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November 26, 2020Medical License Defense Posts

Handling Complaints Against Texas Medical Care Facilities

Any medical care facility within the state of Texas that has received notification that a complaint has been filed against it with the agency that regulates it has a lot to deal with. Regulation of these facilities is slightly different depending on the type of facility, but the fact remains: every facility should take complaints very seriously. Clinics, hospitals, and some other health care facilities are controlled by the Health Care Facilities Regulation standards of...

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November 24, 2020Posts

Complaints Against Texas Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselors

In Texas, Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselors—also known as addiction counselors—are licensed to provide the people of Texas counseling services designed to address the scourge of substance abuse and dependence, as well as the impact it has on individuals. As such, in the throes of an opioid crisis, they are among the heroes we need to defeat it—and it can therefore come as a shock when they find there has been a formal complaint lodged against...

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November 23, 2020Posts

Dealing With a Texas Medical Board Investigation

A physician who receives notice of an investigation having been launched by the Texas Medical Board is in a precarious position. The stress this causes can be extreme. After all, physicians toil for years to earn their medical licenses and do their earnest best to provide their patients with the best possible medical care. Allegations—in the form of a formal complaint—that the physician has violated the standard of care, has violated the Texas Medical Practice...

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November 23, 2020Professional License Defense Posts

Child Care Operations—and the Types of Complaints They Receive

Operators of child care operations in the state of Texas provide a critically important service to society. Workers in every sector of our economy utilize child care to perform their own unique functions—a fact that everyone has become acutely aware of in the COVID-19 pandemic era. Yet, because they are charged with caring for society’s most vulnerable population—children—the State takes a keen interest in the way child care operations are run and takes complaints against...

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November 21, 2020Medical License Defense Posts

What Sorts of Conduct Cause Texas Nurses to Be Disciplined

No two ways about it: If you’re a nurse in Texas and you are facing disciplinary action because someone has interpreted your conduct in a way that, if proven, would be a strike against you, your license is at stake. Any nurse that is found by the Texas Board of Nursing—the regulating body that both conducts investigations into complaints made against nurses and performs the judicial elements of the complaint process—to have violated the Texas...

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