Physician-patient relationships are grounded in trust. With the patient’s trust comes a strong boundary line that a physician may never cross. When physician-patient boundaries blur, the consequences can be severe. Gardner Employment Law provides professional legal advice to physicians when
Buried in some employment agreements, there may lurk a provision that attempts to force the employee to waive all defenses to the non-compete clause. Is this legal? At Gardner Employment Law, we often review contracts that include very broad non-competes
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently released a lengthy legal opinion asserting that many public-sector DEI initiatives violate state and federal law. Other experts disagree. In this article, we explain how this recent opinion affects the workplace and employee
Physicians prescribe controlled substances as part of their legitimate medical practice. But when a doctor fails to properly document the medical records, if he or she fails to have a monitor present, or the doctor issues the prescription without proper
When reviewing an employment agreement, physicians often focus on compensation, call coverage, and non-compete clauses . But buried in many contracts are representations and compliance provisions tied to the Stark Law – and misunderstanding them can create serious risk. At
