The VRP terms and conditions are based upon licensees admitting to an addiction or impairment. Any licensee who agrees to the terms of this pre-Board ordered program without clearly understanding what they are doing risks their entire career.
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Medical Marijuana, Health-Care students, NO Reasonable Accommodation
I write extensively about medical marijuana and health care related employment. https://www.phila-criminal-lawyer.com/medical-marijuana/I write extensively about Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Act and issues associated with securing a Medical Marijuana Card in...
PA Wage and Collection Law, Covid 19 and Nurses Working Excessive Hours
A long-term client called me today, and related the following story: Before Covid, she worked an average of three, 8 hour shifts for 24 hours. After Covid, she worked five or six, 12 hour shifts, routinely working 55 or 60 hours a week. However, her nursing home employer was still only paying her 24 hours a week.
This is illegal. Pennsylvania’s Wage Payment and Collection Law gives powers and duties to every employee for the civil collection of wages. Pennsylvania Wage Payment and Collection Law provides for civil and criminal penalties including 10% and 25% escalating penalties for employers who fail to properly pay wages absent any good faith dispute.
Covod-19 Potential Exposure Risk Assessment
Interim U.S. Guidance for Risk Assessment and Public Health Management of Healthcare Personnel with Potential Exposure in a Healthcare Setting to Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Update: This Interim Guidance was updated and archived on April 12,...
Is it Time to Terminate your PHMP Contract ? — End The Torture
I represent health care professionals in Pennsylvania’s health care monitoring program called teh PHMP, PNAP, SARPH, PHP. Some are int he program voluntarily. Some are forced. Some of my clients’ contracts have been extended from 3 to 5 to 7 years in either PNAP, SARPH, or the PHP for a minor, singular violations of their Consent Agreement or Board Order. Some of these extensions are forced or voluntarily entered. Call me.
Revision to Pennsylvania Telemedicine Regulations
March 18, 2020 Pennsylvania Authorizes Licensed Health Care Professionals to Provide Services via Telemedicine During Coronavirus Emergency In order to increase the number of health care practitioners available to respond to the COVID-19 emergency and to ensure...
Covid -19 and Health Care Disciplinary Process
Covid-19 and the Practice of Law and Pending Health Care Disciplinary Cases
DWI and DUI Charges for Sleeping in a Car
Sleeping in a car while drunk is a DWI/DUI.
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...
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 behavior....