JANUARY ‘18 ISSUE PUBLISHER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: JOE A. FLORES JD, APRN ATTORNEY AT LAW & FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONER A PRIMER ON THE LAW: BEING NAMED IN A LAWSUIT OR A FEDERAL OR STATE INVESTIGATION I’ve been a nurse for almost 30 years. I’ve been a nurse...
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JANUARY ‘18 ISSUE PUBLISHER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: JOE A. FLORES JD, APRN ATTORNEY AT LAW & FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONER A PRIMER ON THE LAW: BEING NAMED IN A LAWSUIT OR A FEDERAL OR STATE INVESTIGATION I’ve been a nurse for almost 30 years. I’ve been a nurse practitioner for 18 years. I have been an attorney who has proudly defended health care providers for most of my 16 -year legal career. I still see patients weekly as a nurse practitioner. In other words, I am a bit of an anomaly. I get raised eyebrows and at national speeches and I frequently get asked, “ How did you go from nurse practitioner to lawyer?” The answer is that I reviewed cases for lawyers for a decade and loved the process. I loved seeing trials and being an expert witness. At the ripe age of 30 I went back to law school and 19 years later, here I am. Despite good tort reform efforts, nationally health providers still remain a target in many jurisdictions for lawsuits. To make matters worse, we now have health fraud and th
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