EMTs, paramedics, and other medical first responders have a high-stress job. EMTs and other “pre-hospital” personnel (collectively EMTs) are highly trained, highly skilled professionals upon whom we relied as a society to treat our sick and injured without regard to race, color, creed, or nationality. They are essentially doctors in the field. We rely upon […]
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Kansas’ Department of Children and Families (DCF) serves children who are in need. Social workers employed by the agency are in great need. In 2015, the agency experienced a nearly 25% turnover of its social workers. The agency’s remaining social workers absorbed the departing social workers’ caseloads. Social workers already suffer from tremendous stress and […]
In Kansas, architecture, landscape architecture, professional engineering, professional geology, and professional surveying are known as technical professions. The Kansas Board of Technical Professionals (“the Board”) issues licenses for technical professions. The Board also has the authority to institute disciplinary actions for technical professionals as well. The Board works to make certain that each technical professional […]
The Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) investigates all manner of narcotics-related crimes. Their investigations are not limited to the distribution of street drugs. The DEA regulations require healthcare professionals who prescribe medications to register with the agency before lawfully prescribing medications. The DEA also investigates allegations of criminal wrongdoing by doctors and other prescribers who abuse […]
The Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”) is the agency dedicated to enforcing the federal drug laws in the United States. Most people associate the DEA with investigating illicit narcotic distribution. Healthcare professionals with the privilege of writing and dispensing prescriptions know that the DEA has wider jurisdiction than simply investigating street crimes. Any healthcare professional who […]
According to Deathwithdignity.org, seven out of every ten Americans favor some death with dignity legislation. California enacted the most recent death with dignity statute. Their law went into effect on June 9, 2016. The statute’s enactment received enormous publicity. The law on its face appears to conflict directly with a heath care professional’s ethical obligation […]
The Kansas Board of Pharmacy (“the Board”) is the disciplinary body for pharmacists, pharmacies, distributors, and pharmacy technicians practicing in the state. The Board possesses authority to discipline licensees who run afoul of pharmacists’ ethical obligations. Accordingly, the Board issued several disciplinary sanctions to this point in 2016 against pharmacists, pharmacies, distributors, and pharmacy technicians. […]
A 2016 decision issued by the Kansas appeals court discussed the broad authority possessed by the State Board of Healing Arts (“the Board”) to issue subpoenas during investigations. The case discusses important issues relating to the relevance of certain information as well as the Board’s ability to issue subpoenas for that information. Since a subpoena […]
A 2013 appellate decision issued by the Missouri Court of Appeals examined whether a marital and family therapist licensed in Kansas should receive a license without first taking an examination in Missouri. The case highlights the differences between the Missouri and Kansas requirements for becoming a licensed marital and family therapist in either state. The […]