Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Winkler County, Texas. The Winkler County nurse whistleblower case was a series of legal proceedings in West Texas concerning the retaliation against two nurses who submitted an anonymous state medical board complaint against a physician in 2009. The case attracted national attention for its implications on whistleblowing by nurses.
Within 48 hours of being put on Paxil Schell killed his wife, daughter, infant granddaughter, and himself. Tim Tobin, Schell's son-in-law, took legal action against SmithKline (now GlaxoSmithKline). The Tobin case was heard in Wyoming from May 21 to June 6, 2001. The jury returned a guilty verdict against SmithKline and awarded Tobin $6.4 million.
Louisiana had passed Act 620 in 2014, modeled after Texas' law that would require doctors to have admission privileges at a hospital within 30 miles, effectively reducing the number of legal clinics to one at the time of passage. The law was challenged by abortion clinics and doctors in June Medical Services, LLC v.
Texans on both sides who gave testimony at the meeting agreed that confusion over the state's near-total abortion ban has left doctors terrified. 'Confused and frightened': Texas Medical Board ...
The board's action comes after almost two years of calls by Texas OB-GYNs, pregnant patients, lawmakers, Gov. Greg Abbott and the state's highest court for the agency to issue guidelines about ...
Texas law allows an abortion when a doctor practicing “reasonable medical judgment” believes “a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that ...
A doctor convicted of providing an illegal abortion in Texas can face up to 99 years in prison, a $100,000 fine and lose their medical license. Zaafran said the board decided against listing ...
On March 15, 2005, six-month-old infant Sun Hudson, who had a lethal congenital malformation, was one of the first children to have care withdrawn under the Texas Futile Treatment Law. [1] [2] Doctors demonstrated in the ethics committee reviews that keeping the infant on a respirator would only delay his inevitable death. Sun died shortly ...