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Can the Texas Medical Board Suspend a Physician’s License Without Providing Notice?

March 11, 2021Posts

There is a general assumption in Texas's administrative law regime that licensees must be given due process before their licenses may be suspended or revoked, and this goes just as much for Physicians as for anyone else. Part of this due process is generally considered to be the giving of notice to a licensee prior to suspension. But there are indeed certain specific situations in which the Texas Medical Board may suspend a medical practitioner's license...

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Investigation and Resolution of Complaints Before TDLR

March 09, 2021Posts

The Texas Department of Licensing and Registration (TDLR) is the licensing body for more than forty professions in the state of Texas. What this means for Texas professionals is that TDLR is the organization that sets the standards for licensure for these professions, maintains and enforces those standards, and engages in disciplinary action against licensees when it determines it necessary. As part of its disciplinary process, it investigates complaints it receives and ushers them to...

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Reasons a Texas Nurse May Be Disciplined by the Board of Nursing

March 07, 2021Posts

Nurses in the state of Texas are regulated by the Texas Board of Nursing. This Board is not just in charge of licensing nurses of every stripe—including nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and nurse anesthetists—but is also charged by the Texas State Legislature with enforcing the Nursing Practice Act and its own rules and regulations. It provides nursing education and sets minimum standards for the practice of nursing, receives and conducts investigations into complaints against nurses,...

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Informal Settlement Conferences Before the Texas Medical Board

March 04, 2021Posts

Texas physicians going through the process of battling a complaint against their license are, at times, forced to endure the stress of an Informal Settlement Conference before the Texas Medical Board. An Informal Settlement Conference is by no means the first step in the complaint process. After the Board receives a complaint against a physician—whether by a patient, or a member of a patient's family, or another healthcare worker, or someone else—it reviews the allegations...

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Defending a Texas Medical Radiologic Technologist’s License

March 02, 2021Posts

The medical radiologic technologists of Texas work hard to earn their right to practice in the career they love, helping patients by performing diagnostic imaging procedures. These dedicated individuals ensure that patients are properly positioned for the taking of X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, and computed tomography (CT) scans, among other such medical tests, and that a quality diagnostic image is produced by the imaging. And yet, a single complaint against a practitioner's license...

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