State Medical Board Attacks On Integrative MD’s and DO’s
| Integrative Practitioners Working Toward a Level Playing Field | |
 | Integrative practitioners have had an uphill battle in protecting their right to practice medicine in a manner that assesses the whole patient—mind, body, lifestyle, and genetics. The right to exercise independent judgment in developing a course of treatment for a patient that exceeds the conventional model of care has been under the microscope by the allopathic community for years and many integrative practitioners have paid the price. Read More>> |
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 | Ask Legislators to Approve the Formation of the Texas Board of Integrative Medicine and Support Due Process Rights! HB 2455, the Licensed Integrative Medicine Practitioner Act, establishes a licensing board separate from the regular state medical board. And HB1013 gives more due process rights for all doctors, including doctors who practice integrative medicine, such as a ban on anonymous complaints and the guarantee of a jury trial before a license can be revoked.Read More>> The Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners has proposed a change in its rules.In effect, many of the services that chiropractic doctors currently perform in Texas would become illegal. The TBCE’s rule change is clearly a result of all the litigation and pressure applied by the Texas Medical Association Ask the TBCE to reject the proposed rules and protect chiropractic scope of practice. For nearly three decades, Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski has been battling the FDA and the Texas Medical Board (TMB) over his important, nontoxic, gene-targeted cancer therapy called antineoplastons. He has won every court battle, and has been vindicated in every hearing. But now the TMB is making yet another attempt to revoke Dr. Burzynski’s medical license which, if successful, would result in the closure of his clinic, the abandonment of all his patients. |
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| Readers’ Corner: Can Physicians Write Prescriptions for Drugs that the FDA Has Not Approved? | |
| September 13, 2011 A reader asks us to clarify. | |
| Readers’ Corner: Can My Doctor Get Into Big Legal Trouble by Offering Natural Health Treatments? | |
 | August 9, 2011 A reader asks an important question about the laws threatening integrative doctors. We lay it all out. |
| Urgent Action Alert for North Carolinians! Medical Licensing Bill Due for Vote Tuesday Evening | |
 | April 5, 2011 The North Carolina Senate is likely voting on a bill this evening which will make the unlicensed and unregistered practice of “medicine or surgery” a felony. The problem is that “medicine or surgery” is unnecessarily vague, and may include some alternative health practices. |
| Milestone Victory: Texas State Medical Board’s Attack on Leading Integrative Doctor Beaten Back | |
 | December 21, 2010 A court defeat for the Texas Medical Board is changing policies—and minds |
| Another Defeat for the Texas Medical Board—Court Rules in Favor of Physicians | |
 | December 21, 2010Another Defeat for the Texas Medical Board—Court Rules in Favor of Physicians |
| More Stealth Attacks on Integrative Doctors May Be Coming | |
 | December 21, 2010We have to watch both the AMA and the Federation of State Medical Boards. They have a new strategy to limit your health freedom |
