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Published Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009 | 7:21 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009 | 7:45 a.m.
The Board of Medical Examiners will be represented by private attorney John Bailey when it goes to court today to defend the emergency regulation the board enacted earlier this month. The regulation prohibits medical assistants from injecting cosmetic fillers such as Botox, but allows MAs who administer vaccinations to continue breaking a 30-year-old law that has not been enforced, except once recently and in an arbitrary fashion. (See Monday's program with Betty Guerra, the woman thrown in jail by the AG on a complaint forwarded from the medical board for doing the same procedures as her counterparts in medical spas and doctors' offices throughout the state. The AG's office says it's proceeding with Guerra's prosecution for now and waiting to see how the story plays out.)
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diggShe's been thrown in jail, faces deportation and had her pay slashed in half. Was medical assistant Betty Guerra doing anything more than her counterparts throughout the state? Face to Face has an exclusive television interview with the woman at the heart of the controversy that may prompt changes in the way medical professionals are regulated in Nevada.
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She's been thrown in jail, faces deportation and had her pay slashed in half. Was medical assistant Betty Guerra doing anything more than her counterparts throughout the state? Face to Face has an exclusive television interview with the woman at the heart of the controversy that may prompt changes in the way medical professionals are regulated in Nevada.
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She's been thrown in jail, faces deportation and had her pay slashed in half. Was medical assistant Betty Guerra doing anything more than her counterparts throughout the state? Face to Face has an exclusive television interview with the woman at the heart of the controversy that may prompt changes in the way medical professionals are regulated in Nevada.
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She's been thrown in jail, faces deportation and had her pay slashed in half. Was medical assistant Betty Guerra doing anything more than her counterparts throughout the state? Face to Face has an exclusive television interview with the woman at the heart of the controversy that may prompt changes in the way medical professionals are regulated in Nevada.
Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto told the medical board's executive director Louis Ling, who is an attorney, to find another attorney as the AG's office has several conflicts. AG Spokewoman Edie Cartwright says the criminal complaint against Guerra poses one conflict. (I don't know why since MAs are prohibited from injecting cosmetic fillers regardless of the outcome.)
Another conflict cited by Cartwright: Deputy AG Christine Guerci, who advised the board it could ignore the public comment and vote, might be called as a witness. Guerci told the board the public could be heard after the vote, which essentially renders public input irrelevant and in this case left some speakers addressing the few remaining board members who had not scurried off to lunch.
We wanted to know if Mr. Bailey's representation of the board will cost taxpayers, but Mr. Ling isn't talking. The medical board is self-funded by license fees and has the ability to hire anyone without oversight.
The medical board is self-funded by license fees and has the ability to hire anyone without oversight. YEA AND THATS THE PROBLEM!
The Las Vegas Sun uncovered the story of TireWorks and Nina Radetich's unethical actions, and reported that the Nevada Attorney General's Office SOLD the key piece of evidence (a car from the State motor pool) in that huge production of a case.
The Nevada Attorney General's Office is, in my opinion, full of some of the most incompetent attorneys, some of whom are rejects of the Clark County District Attorney's Office.
This medical board fiasco is another reason Catherine Cortez-Masto must be thrown out of office. She has no professional oversight of her indolent, lazy attorneys in my opinion.
Her deputies are considered jokes by most attorneys at the RJC. One in particular, married to a very prominent defense attorney, and who has been a deputy AG for a long time, did not even know that she had to give notice that she had victims who desired to speak at sentencing. She seemed flabbergasted at just learning of this statutory requirement. She was going to oppose the defense counsel's request to continue sentencing till she was informed that if the sentencing was continued, she could then have time to send notice to the defense that she had victims speakers.
And rumor has it she may be running for Judge, financed by deep-pocket husband, I guess. Welcome to Las Vegas Law.
The Med Board has sometimes enforced the ban on allowing medical assistants to inject cosmetic fillers, but the fines are so small and the enforcement is so arbritary that it would not make sense to stop this lucrative practice. In fact, a review of disciplinary actions shows that the fine for improperly injecting people with fake Botox, let alone real Botox, is generally somewhere between $1,000 and $2,000 in NV. Since everybody knows that the Med Board refuses to investigate the overwhelming majority of complaints, it obviously pays to keep on breaking the law. And if doctors in NV want to practice without any regulation whatsoever, they can easily obtain a homeopathic license, which frees them from all oversight even if they are also licensed MD's. Homeopaths can not only inject whatever they want into their patients, they can also prescribe highly invasive procedures such as PIC lines over the phone without ever examining patients or reviewing medical records. Finally, people should know that the typical fine for contributing directly to the death of a patient is around $6,000 and, in most cases, doctors can remain in business as usual.
I've been collecting info on dangerous doctors in Nevada, but there's so much wrongdoing that I can't keep up: http://faculty.uml.edu/sgallagher/NSBME....