I'm in the long process of applying for my Texas Medical License and one of the requirements is passing the Texas Medical Jurisprudence Exam. I got the 2002 version with a companion study guide but I heard there was a new version out. Anyone know if it really matters that I don't have the latest version, as I don't really feel like spending anymore money to get this license. Thanks.

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I also have a question: has anyone taken the test? How difficult is it, and is a lot of preparation necessary? I would think it would be very easy compared to the steps, is it?

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I was a physician for 15 years and had licenses in 7 states including Texas. Now of all the states Texas has been universally regarded as the most difficult, time consuming, most comprehensive background check and expensive. Regardless I got one in 13 months once I passed the USMLE III and the jurisprudence exam. I was told one afternoon in Austin when I was there picking up a copy of my license that they are VERY Proud of being the most difficult and discipline oriented.

My practice went well for years and I worked in 5 of the 7 states that I had licenses in over a 11 year period (after my University of Texas Residency). While working in Ohio, one day a pharmacy called me and notified me that my nurse had called in over 86 vicodin prescriptions over a 6 month period and to a select few names. After checking with other pharmacy's I concluded my nurse was both taking vicodin illicitly and giving them to a select few friends. She was fired, offered her drug treatment, (which she declined) so I there for had her arrested and reported her to the DEA and nursing board.

A week later I get a call from the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners (TSBME). They want me to submit to a hair sample for drugs of abuse including Vicodin despite this happening in Ohio. I submitted to the 342 dollar exam at a testing location the TSBME picked out within 4 hours of being called.
IT WAS NEGATIVE FOR ANY DRUGS
Even though no other states brought ANY charges against me Texas did. It seems that the Nursing board is responsible for Nurses in every state but in Texas it is up to the discretion of the TSBME's if they want to make me responsible for my nurses actions. They did. I flew down to Texas to meet with the TSBME without a lawyer. I thought we would just talk and they would give me suggestions.
Instead, I meet with them for 20 minutes, waited out in the hall for 30 minutes then went back in to hear my license was REVOKED PERMANENTLY.
Even though none of the other 6 states brought any charges against me, they now had to REVOKE MY LICENSES due to the fact if one state does then all have to PERIOD. They then posted all my charges, paperwork and personal papers on the TSBME for anyone to read as a cautionary tail.

Now the only job I have gotten in the last 3 years is a part time job teaching medical assistants. I have Medicaid and am on Food Stamps in order to feed my family. My wife works full time (which really shames me, she had wanted to finish college). We cant even afford presents for my daughter when she had her second birthday recently. I have never been this depressed and ashamed of myself. Did I also mention that they put every thing about my revocation in the newspaper in ALL 7 states so my mother, friends, colleagues, and family could read... I am loosing any desire to do anything and basically have no future. I play the lottery when ever I have a buck but deep down I know I will not win.

So think long and hard about Texas. If you dont believe this story, go the the TSBME website and look at all the suspensions and Revocations compaired to any other state and what their being punished for.

Thats a sad story Ill keep you in my prayers.

Not sure about this story,,I have been in another healthfield for a longg time,,seems to me if you re innocent and did not do any drugs as you claim you shoul be fighting this hard but you did not and accepted it,,If this is truly what happened then your first defense should be getting a lawyer that your malpractice would cover ,,on that note I would be calling your malpractice insur carrier pronto monday morning to defend and challenge this decision imo

DRDR2U didn/t you read the part he said he is basically flat broke? Any good lawyer to handle this case will cost lots of $$$ to give you indea, around $250.00 per hour. Pro-bono? Unilkely, unless it is a good samaritan lawyer who is set for life. Contingency? Forget it, unless there is lots of $$$ for a 33% cut it won't hapen. I don't mean to be rude at you or anything, but most people in these forums talk about hiring a lawyer as if they were cheap, they are not, believe me. This is a sad reality and it bites and I feel terirble for this guy, and unfortunaletely that is how the Lone Star State works and a reason I NEVER bothered to practice medicine there. They have that mentality and it is a shame. With all respect for the Lone Star State Medical Board.....they suck, have double standards and are double crossing two faced hypocrites. Pardon the flurry of words.

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the tx medical med board has multiple lawsuits pending.

one by the aaps amer assoc of physicians and surgeons.
there is some serious violations.

the tx medical board has engaged in illegal tactics like lack of
due process, prosecuting doctors for baseless anonymous complaints,
conflict of interest and the list goes on.