Becker's Healthcare December 18, 2024
2024 has become a more legally treacherous year for physicians and it’s affecting the way they practice medicine.
Here are seven notes on the way that new legal actions are impacting physicians and their work with patients:
1. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently filed a lawsuit against a New York physician who prescribed mifepristone and misoprostol, two medications commonly used to end pregnancies, via telemedicine to a patient in Texas. The lawsuit alleged that Margaret Carpenter, MD, violated Texas’ law prohibiting a physician or medical supplier from providing any abortion-inducing drugs by courier, delivery or mail service. The lawsuit also alleges that Dr. Carpenter violated a law that prevents physicians not licensed in the Texas from delivering...
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