Entries by Sanger Law Office

Kansas Professional Licensing Attorney Discusses the Kansas Board of Technical Professions

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Kansas Board of Technical Professions (the “Board”) is the regulatory body designated by the Kansas legislature to license and regulate architects, landscape architects, land surveyors, professional engineers, professional geologists, and professional landscape architects (collectively “licensees”). The Board’s mission is to ensure that licensees are adequately educated and have the technical ability to perform the necessary […]

Kansas Professional Licensing Attorney Discusses How Kansas Pharmacists’ Association Is Ready And Willing To Help Practitioners Suffering From Substance Abuse

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Kansas Pharmacists Association recognizes that pharmacists, like doctors, dentists, and lawyers, are susceptible to becoming addicted to drugs or alcohol. To the uninitiated, learning that a doctor or a pharmacist became addicted to drugs or alcohol sounds incongruent. After all, if anyone should know that abusing drugs is unhealthy, the professionals who understand the effects […]

Missouri Professional Licensing Attorney Reviews Disciplinary Decisions Of the Missouri Dental Board From The Second Half Of 2016

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The Missouri Dental Board (the Board) issued five disciplinary decisions in the second half of 2016. Periodically reviewing disciplinary decisions allows a licensee to learn how the governing body decides disciplinary actions. The Board’s decisions have some precedential value to them. Consequently, the Board should try to rule on disciplinary actions consistent with its decisional […]

Kansas And Missouri Professional Licensing Attorney Discusses A Physician’s Responsibility To Debunk “Fake News” Presented By A Patient

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One does not have to search too hard today for claims of “fake news” passed off as actual events. Social media has been rife with false claims of factual situations for some time. Unfortunately, such claims crept into our Presidential election, and mainstream media suffered accusations of passing off fake news as fact. The medical […]

The United States Surgeon General Addresses Healthcare Professionals’ Obligation To Combat Opioid Abuse

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In August of 2016, Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., M.B.A., the United States Surgeon General, circulated an impassioned letter to physicians and other healthcare providers in the United States imploring practitioners to work diligently to combat the opioid epidemic endangering our nation. There can be little debate something must be done to stem the tide of […]

Kansas and Missouri Professional Licensing Attorney Talks About Dry Needling In Kansas

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The Kansas Board of Healing Arts scheduled a public meeting to discuss an amendment to the state’s physical therapy regulations. The Board is seeking public comment and testimony regarding the physical therapy treatment known as “dry needling.” The public hearing is scheduled for February 7, 2017. Dry needling is a relatively new and controversial treatment […]