LICENSE APPLICANTS COULD AVOID SEEKING TREATMENT FOR MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES TO DODGE APPLICATION QUESTIONS, SURVEY FINDS A large percentage of female physicians who answered a survey published in General Hospital...
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A federal court in Alaska, while ultimately rejecting the claim of a rejected Social Security applicant that a judge inappropriately relied on medical evaluations by doctors who had been the...
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Even though Nebraska has some of the least burdensome barriers to entry to a license in the country, the state could improve by dropping questions about criminal history which are...
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California Dental Board License Defense Attorneys Lawyers Who Represent Licensed Dentists, Dental Hygienists and Dental Assistants in California California Dental Board License Investigation The California Dental Board licenses dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants. Before the dental board moves to discipline, suspend, or revoke one of these professional dental licenses,…
Background Information What is an expungement? An expungement reopens your criminal case, dismisses and sets aside the conviction, and re-closes the case without a conviction. In effect, you are no...
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The Arizona State Board of Respiratory Care Examiners won plaudits from the state Auditor General this year for some elements of its performance. It followed rules on issuing licenses and issued most in a timely manner. But the watchdog agency cited one area where the board needs work: ensuring licensees’…
The California medical board must consider the impossibility defense of a doctor who was subject to an order from a religious court in Lebanon preventing him from leaving that country, after the order placed him in violation of his license probation in California, the California Court of Appeal, Second District,…
State agency websites don’t strive for superior turning ability, extra shine, or spin cycle speed. But anyone who’s consulted Consumer Reports to compare vacuum cleaners or hybrid cars will recognize the red- and black-dotted rating system the publisher adopted in its recent ratings of state medical board websites. A Survey…
An appellate court in California overturned a license revocation issued to a doctor who had accepted several thousand dollars in disability insurance while working for another employer (Pirouzian v. Superior Court; Medical Board of California, Real Party in Interest). In its June 29, 2016, decision, the court cited several mitigating…
A company did not engage in the unlicensed practice of engineering when it used a GPS device, or geographic positioning system, to locate and map the location of equipment of a local utility, a Pennsylvania court held May 24, 2016 (Southeastern Reprographics v. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs). The…
