Being a physician, nurse, pharmacist or any other licensed health care professional comes with obligations, the first of which is: “First, do no harm.”
In the eyes of your professional licensing board, incurring a drunken driving or drugged driving offense puts you at risk of doing harm — not just to your patients/clients, but to the public at large.
When you are cited for impaired driving, as a licensed health care professional you are required to report the DUI or DWI to your relevant board. Failure to report can lead to probation or a suspended or revoked license.
But before you report, the best advice is to contact a professional licensing lawyer. Having an attorney prepare your report properly to the board could mean avoiding or reducing fines and sanctions — and, ultimately, preserving your license.
If you reported, you probably already received notice of a subsequent action against your license. But you need to be very careful in how and when you respond to the board or investigator — and a professional licensing attorney can help put your response together to put you in the best position possible.
The Department of Health, LARA and your respective licensing board — such as the state Board of Medicine, Board of Nursing, Board of Dentistry, Board of Pharmacy and Board of Chiropractic Medicine — take such criminal offenses seriously. They want to be sure you are safe to practice and you are not impaired.
Programs such as Health Professionals Recovery Program (HPRP), Intervention Project for Nurses (IPN), and Professionals Resource Network (PRN) are set up to help licensed health care professionals get the help they need for substance abuse. But if you do not have a dependency/impairment problem, those intervention programs can make things worse for you. They are very invasive and expensive — and they may still end in formal disciplinary action.
Our network of Ph.Ds and MD/DOs who specialize in substance dependency/addiction can provide a complete assessment, to show your board this was an isolated situation; you are safe to practice; you would not benefit from a period of monitoring; and you do not need active supervision.
At Chapman Law Group, we are dedicated solely to the defense of health professionals, including those who are convicted of or currently facing a DUI.
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Being cited for DUI or DWI means not just shame and embarrassment, it also puts your career at high risk to be halted.
Our clients include practitioners in cities, counties, and communities all across Florida and Michigan.
Our Florida offices are in Miami and Sarasota, Florida. We serve the full state of Florida for medical licensing defense, from Jacksonville and Tampa, to Orlando and Gainesville, and from West Palm Beach and Cape Coral, to Fort Lauderdale and Tallahassee.
For our Detroit office, our clients include practitioners in cities, counties, and communities all across Michigan — from the Metro Detroit area and Ann Arbor, to Lansing and Grand Rapids, and from Flint and Saginaw, to Kalamazoo and Midland.
Michigan Office
1441 W. Long Lake Road, Suite 310
Troy, MI 48098
Phone: (248) 644-6326
If your Florida medical, nursing, dentist’s, chiropractor’s, pharmacy, or other healthcare license is suspended or revoked, that doesn’t mean you can’t get it reinstated.
For Michigan licensed healthcare providers, not reporting a criminal conviction will lead to penalties, fines, license probation, even full license revocation.
Michigan nurses and medical practitioners are most often referred to HPRP by employers due to potential safety-to-practice concerns.
Florida nurses and medical practitioners are most often referred to IPN and PRN by employers due to potential safety-to-practice concerns.
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