I represent 30 nurses facing licensing discipline due to attending one the South Florida fake nursing schools operated by Johanna Napoleon, Gail Russ, and John Pierre. While I am fighting the disciplinary cases, I am also fighting the OIG exclusions. A potential...
Professional License Issues
4 ways you can protect your professional license
For licensed professionals in the medical field, maintaining your credentials requires ongoing vigilance and commitment to ethical standards. Failure to follow proper protocols can result in disciplinary actions ranging from fines to complete license revocation....
Nurses go the distance for their patients
I represent hard working nurses doing amazing things. This article is about one nurse going the distance for her patients even though the hospitals, government, licensing boards, and maybe even her own department are against her. We need to be more aware of amazing...
Tips to prepare for a Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine investigation
An investigation by the State Board of Medicine in Pennsylvania can have significant implications for a physician's career and practice. Medical professionals are wise to understand the common triggers for such investigations, the investigative process itself, and how...
Why give social media a break when your medical license is at risk?
As a medical professional, you will want to do all you can to protect your professional license. Without it, you will not have the right to work in the career you spent years training for and gaining experience in. Things can happen that result in you rightly or...
DOJ charges Walgreens Boots Alliance with unlawful dispensation of millions of prescriptions in violation of the Controlled Substances Act — Corresponding Responsibility Violations
Walgreens Boots Alliance and its subsidiaries alleging unlawful dispensation of millions of prescriptions in violation of the Controlled Substances Act.
A Licensed Clinical Social Worker that claims he is a Doctor– William J Heran ….. Be Careful.
I often write about Pennsylvania's PHP and Pennsylvania's health care boards; impairment investigations that start after a DUI, a positive pre-employment drug test, or an accusation of being drunk at work. The new PHP and the PHMP have ratcheted up their enforcement,...
Tired and Exhausted Nurses Strike in New Orleans Before the Super Bowl
"We don't take this decision lightly," Shonda Franklin, RN, said in the release. "But so many of us are tired of seeing our fellow nurses leave UMC because management can't ensure basic things like uninterrupted lunch breaks on our 12-hour shifts. It's time for a...
Nurses engaging in identity theft and fraud
An Iowa hospital administrator who lived under a false identity for more than 30 years and caused the false imprisonment, involuntary hospitalization, and forced medication of his victim was sentenced today to 12 years in federal prison. This case exemplifies the...
Pleading guilty to a DUI can cost a nurse their license
Individuals accused of breaking the law frequently react somewhat passively. Instead of trying to fight to protect their reputation, they simply plead guilty. Professionals who have invested heavily in their careers may not want to take time away from work to go to...