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Published Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009 | 2:49 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009 | 2:52 p.m.
Like other medical assistants throughout the state, Betty Guerra was to return to work this week. But unlike the others caught up in the fiasco resulting from the sudden effort by the Board of Medical Examiners to enforce a long-ignored statute that says who may administer drugs, Guerra faces 10 felony counts for injecting Botox and suturing.
Now that the board has given medical assistants its blessing to do their jobs again it appears the attorney general’s office is trying to drum up additional charges against Guerra. Our calls to the AG went unanswered but sources tell us the investigator hounding Guerra turned up today at the doctor’s office where she was to return to work tomorrow and inquired about her social security number. The doctor, spooked by the attention from the AG, rescinded the offer of employment.
Guerra’s attorney confirms he’s filing a motion to dismiss the felony counts should his request to the AG’s office to drop the charges be declined. I suppose prosecuting Guerra for the crime that is no crime would be the consummate ending to this fiasco.
Oh, for petes sake. Let this poor woman live her life and stop prosecuting her for no reason other than you don't want to admit you were wrong.
The taxpayers of Nevada are getting really tired of this crap.
UNBELIEVABLE.... Again only in Nevada under the Attorney Generals Direction could this sort of thing continue. Like a Bad ex husband or a Stalker. I think it's time to bring National News and a greater spotlite to this AGs office. There has to be more to this picture then meets the eye. Let's bring in the big guns. Someone needs to stop the madness. Enough is Enough.
Dear Ms. Guerra,
I grew up in the era of the cold war. Russia was such a threat to freedom and democracy. The Berlin wall, Stalin and all he represented. Of course it was mostly true. I remember Kruschev coming to America. Pounding his shoe on the table, I think it was at the U.N.
As I followed this unraveling of the fiasco created primarily by the Medical Board. I think Mr. Ling was behind your arrest because as he said on the FACE TO FACE program he was familiar with the law having come from the Pharmacy Board after I believe 17 years and he was going to clear up or clean up the confusion about Medical Assistants in Nevada. He had read the charges against you. Since that program, of course a lot has happened. His claims about you acting without a Doctor have proven to be false. Oh and he has resigned today, I don't know if you've heard. Because of Gulp the problems with his handling of the MA issue.
I saw or read somewhere that you had spent 7 years in Russia. You got your doctorate there. I guess your probably pretty amazed that out of all of the people in Nevada, your lucky enough to be the one person in the state that has been singled out to receive such special treatment now that you have arrived in this great and free land. The reason I mentioned Russia above is because I grew up with a fear of Russia and what they were doing all over the world.
Out of curiosity, how would you evaluate the comparison between Russia and America on a scale of say 1 thru 10.I ask you because you are more uniquely situated and had the opportunity to give a valid and fair comparison between the 2 countries. Were you arrested there? Did the authorities hound you and cause you to lose your employment?
You were a minoity there also I presume. I had heard it wasn't uncommon for the authorities to come to your house in the middle of the night when you felt most vulnerable. Did that happen to you there? I read that the INS has come to your home here early in the morning. If it happened in Russia, would you mind giving all of us your evaluation of the comparison of treatment between the 2 countries. Remember to use the 1 thru 10 gauge. Do you think this visit in the night had to do with the charges against you regarding suturing and injecting Botox. Is it orchestrated? Remember, keep it simple. 1 thru 10.
I guess you probably heard that now Medical Assistants can inject. Someone from the Legislature stepped in and helped to bring some intelligence to this situation. Now again using the 1 thru 10 scale, how does it make you feel to know that even though the rules have been clarified and every other Medical Assistant can inject, you can't. Oh wait, I guess you could also if the KG...uh I mean the authorities didn't intimidate your employer to the point that he doesn't need your problems brought to his office. On the scale of 1 thru 10, in comparison; how do we rate?
This is just stupid beyond belief.I hope all charges against Ms. Guerra are dropped and the AG's office can find someone else to harass. It's not as if this state lacks for issues needing to be addressed. Wonder how many tax dollars have been wasted on this non-issue.
Surgical procedures are not the accountability of Physicians Assistants. If PA's have the schooling they can write Rx's and they can examine but they cannot perform surgical procedures not even using the physician's license.
Certified medical assistants can do almost all of the normal nurses duties under the license of the Director of Nursing. Nurse Practioners cannot perform surgical procedures either.
The Nevada Medical Association should be given a five star rating for being on top of the use of physcian assistants who are performing surgical procedures w/o license. Beauty salons are licensed to perform injections although the danger of mishap is very high in such injections. Botox was originally used for nerves that are constantly jumping not for cosmetic purposes such as to pump and plump any sagging in the behind or elsewhere.