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The Iowa Board of Medicine has adopted and amended its rules and regulations for opioid pain management are effective on November 27, 2019. The rules as amended can be reviewed at here. While the Definition of "Chronic pain" currently has specific criteria; the...

The national Veterans Administration (V.A.) hospital system has been under administrative scrutiny for many years. There have been accusations that the V.A. system serves as a safe house for dangerous doctors with dubious credentials that get transferred from hospital...

The complaint is the seed from which discipline is born.Like a seed, a licensee may not even know a complaint has been made until it sprouts out of the soil and threatens to keep growing until your career has been strangled in its brambles. Complaints, at first,...

What is an agency? The answer is more complex than it would appear.Let's go back to sixth grade social studies. You are learning about the three branches of United States government. You have the legislative, the branch which is responsible for creating laws.You have...

Peer review can be caused for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately, personal bias rather than concern for patients can motivate peer review. The unspoken reason may be internal rivalry, professional jealousy or financial competitiveness. Below are some examples of...