On July 16th, the Texas Medical Board published it proposed rule changes to be considered at it next Board meeting in August. It is important for licensees and other interested parties to review these rules to determine how it affects you and your practice.
If you support or oppose a rule change, you can write to [...]
The trial began on February 8, 2010 with jury selection. Prior to the trial, one of the two nurses, Vicki Galle, originally indicted was dismissed from the case. Anne Mitchell’s trial involves felony charges for mis-using private, patient files to harass the County hospital’s doctor. On February 9, 2010, testimony began in the trial. The [...]
I am an admitted NPR fan. A day without Morning Edition or All Things Considered is a bad day, disconnected with the world around me. On Monday, All Things Considered did an amazing story regarding end of life care and how the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin worked developing dialogue with patients regarding treatment opinions [...]
Board rule 170.3 basically provides a step-by-step guideline on how to document the treatment of pain. The key to documenting the treatment of pain is to describe one’s legitimate medical purpose for the treatment of pain, based “upon accepted scientific knowledge of the treatment of pain.” The Board basically wants one to follow five (5) [...]
More and more I am seeing both TMB experts and Board members and staff arguing that a doctor’s medical records are deficit because the records fail to provide expressed justification or rationale for medical treatments, labs, consults and testing.
TMB is demanding that doctors justify what you are doing. Your medicine may be right, but if [...]