A 43 year-old teacher from Portland, Maine lost his teaching license after pleading guilty to providing alcohol to a minor. Last September, police were informed that the teacher provided alcohol to a 16 year-old at his apartment the month before. The gender of the teenager and whether or not he or she was a student [...]
The Texas Medical Board is investigating a doctor from Seminole after members of his own staff filed complaints about his behavior. According to the doctor’s records, he was publicly reprimanded and put on probation in 2000 for unprofessional conduct such as using lewd, profane, and sexual language when addressing patients and staff members. His probation [...]
The Texas Medical Board has filed a complaint against a Corpus Christi pain doctor after he allegedly improperly prescribed 16 patients with histories of substance abuse pain medication, including one patient who overdosed on OxyContin. A former nurse of the doctor also filed a complaint to the board, stating she believed his prescribing was unsafe [...]
A veterinarian in Terrell, just east of Dallas, is at risk of having his license revoked for a second time. Complaints about the veterinarian rose when several pets died at his clinic and one dog went missing, which has still never been located. The vet has blamed his staff for the increasing problems. Due to [...]
A Houston oncologist who came under fire in the 1990s for his controversial cancer treatments is facing new accusations of fraud. A 61 year-old patient of his claims that his clinic charged her credit card $60,000 without her permission, failed to tell her she was purchasing her prescriptions from a pharmacy the doctor owned, and [...]