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Emergency Health Care Employer Meeting Requests
If you are a physician or other healthcare provider working at a hospital, hospital administrations protect the hospital at the expense of its employees or independent attending physicians. Local, state and federal governments monitor hospitals and large institutional...Pennsylvania’s New DUI Laws – Penalties and Grading
I am reading the changes to 42 Pa.C.S.A. 9763, Pennsylvania’s new DUI law. Mandatory minimum sentences are now mandatory sentences! Mandatory house arrest/work release/rehab? The DUI sentencing law seems almost eviscerated. It also seems to conflict with the...Extreme Consequences — Irregular Behavior
A ESMLE/ECFMG client was recently found to have engaged in irregular behavior. This determination is now part of the client’s permanent USMLE history. The score report is cancelled and the USMLE transcript contains a notation of the finding of irregular...USMLE or ECFMG — No Irregular Behavior Found
Contrition and a good, honest client portend great results. My USMLE client traveled very far for this hearing in Philadelphia. She was nervous, but testified credibly, confidently, and sympathetically. She testified about medical issues, significant many personal...ECFMG, USMLE Irregular Behavior Consequences
In every ECFMG and USMLE investigation of irregular behavior allegations significant collateral consequences can result. These are the only two entities that certify United States based medical school CK and CS exam tests results and foreign medical graduate...Notice of a Federal Criminal Investigation into a Medical Practice
A federal criminal target letter from a local United States Attorney notifies a potential defendant that they are the “target of” an FBI, DEA, or other governmental agency criminal investigation. Target letters say “you are the target” and place the...Pennsylvania’s New Opioid Treatment Agreement Law
On Nov. 27, 2019 Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf sign into law Act 112 of 2019. This is Pennsylvania’s Opioid Treatment Agreement Law. It took immediate effect. The law requires prescribers to enter into an opioid patient treatment agreement before issuing the...Reckless Prescribing and Death By Prescription
Every day medical practitioners confront complex and serious medical cases. Patients and their doctors face death every day of the week. In this opiate use and abuse environment, death is one pill, snort, injection, toke away. Prosecutors have been turning to the...Federal and State Laws Regarding Prescription Fraud
Some of my blogs are extremely dense. This and the next several blogs focus on the intersection of federal and state criminal statutes and regulations concerning illegally written prescriptions and the potential criminal consequences. Federal criminal statutes are...
