Archive for January 2019
Finishing the PHMP Term — Returning to an Unrestricted Health Care Practice
How do you get out of Pennsylvania’s Professional Health Monitoring Program (“PHMP”). The PHMP administers both the Voluntary Recovery Program “VRP” and the Disciplinary Monitoring Program (“DMU”). As a licensed professional voluntarily enrolled in the PHMP – VRP – or forced into the DMU, you agreed to PHMP terms to keep working. You have been…
Read MoreMultiple medical professionals sentenced on federal charges
Doctors take an oath to do no harm in the execution of their professional duties. This can mean that they engage in different courses of treatment based upon the specific needs and wishes of their patients. Because they are licensed and bound to certain standards of conduct due to their important positions of trust, doctors…
Read MoreWhat is a Petition for Appropriate Relief
A Petition for Appropriate Relief (“PAR”) is a licensing board prosecution motion, presented to a licensing board committee, alleging an emergent need to suspend a licensee’s license. PARs target licensees currently on PHMP disciplinary probation, whether a voluntary agreements and involuntary, licensing board order. This is the TRAP I reference throughout my website, blogs, and…
Read MoreMarijuana Impaired Drivers — The DRE Revisited — Costs
In recent weeks, the New Jersey Legislature has identified cannabis-impaired drivers, which will require training hundreds of new Drug Recognition Experts — as a cost that is potentially crippling to smaller municipalities. Several New Jersey Municipal Court prosecutors agree, stating that police training costs is the single-most important challenge that must be surmounted before…
Read MoreDr. Marijuana — Has Lost His New Jersey Medical License
The Philadelphia Inquirer announces New Jersey Medical Board suspends the medical license of Anthony Anzalone, M.D. — Dr. Marijuana. This is the region’s first medical license suspension case involving a physician violating newly enacted medical marijuana regulations. My research and blogs reviewing Pennsylvania and New Jersey’s Medical Marijuana laws and regulations predicted this type of…
Read MorePennsylvania’s New DUI Law
Pennsylvania’s revised DUI law provides for substantially increased jail time and penalties for individuals convicted of DUI on a DUI related license suspension, kill innocent victims while drunk driving, and repeat DUI offenders. Penalties are also increased for repeat driving while suspended, DUI related, offenses and getting into car accidents while drunk. To start, an…
Read MorePossible defenses to alleged drug crimes
An arrest based on alleged criminal conduct can be detrimental to anyone’s future. However, in Pennsylvania medical professionals who are licensed by the state may face the loss of their right to practice if they are convicted of certain crimes. While individuals in other professions may be able to go back to their careers once…
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