Blog: Face To Face: Final Take

Conan Pope’s pardon denied for killing father

The Nevada Pardons Board turned down an application for pardon Wednesday morning from Conan Pope, who was 15 years old when he killed his abusive father. The board, which consists of the Nevada Supreme Court, the attorney general and the governor, voted six to two. Justices Mark Gibbons and Michael ...

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Med Board Pres: Enough is Enough!

The president of Nevada’s Board of Medical Examiners, Dr. Charles Held, is fighting back against what he calls “political rhetoric, inflammatory journalism, and outright untruths…” (I’ve posted the news release to the right.)

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Gans-owned pharmacy markets sexual dysfunction drug

Vegas weddings. Vegas stories. Vegas throat. And now Vegas Mixx. Leave it to a local pharmacy to whip up a concoction that may have therapeutic value in treating premature ejaculation, a real problem for a significant percentage of men and their partners, only to botch it by marketing and distributing it ...

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Fitting end to MA fiasco

Like other medical assistants throughout the state Betty Guerra was to return to work this week. But unlike the others caught up in the fiasco resulting from the sudden effort by the Board of Medical Examiners to enforce a long-ignored statute that says who may administer drugs, Guerra faces 10 felony counts for injecting Botox and suturing.

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Medical assistants may inject

The uproar caused by our story regarding disparate treatment of medical assistants has resulted in much ado about nothing and a return to the status quo. Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley and Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford announced this morning an agreement among state leaders that allows medical assistants to administer ...

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Med board to MAs: Put down your needles

Enforcing the long-ignored law regarding who may administer prescription drugs has taken on new importance since we first reported about selective enforcement on the part of the Board of Medical Examiners and the attorney general’s office, which arrested medical assistant Betty Guerra this summer for administering injections. Guerra’s crime is ...

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AG won’t defend med board

The Board of Medical Examiners will be represented by private attorney John Bailey when it goes to court today to defend the emergency regulation the board enacted earlier this month.

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Med Board: Position consistent for years

Board of Medical Examiners Executive Director Louis Ling has firm positions, two in fact, on whether medical assistants should be held accountable for injecting cosmetic fillers.

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Board paralyzed by Botox

>Where’s the emergency in the Board of Medical Examiners’ emergency regulation to crack down on unlicensed medical assistants?

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Tire Works owner on Radetich’s ‘lapse’

The owner of Tire Works Total Car Care said today during a phone interview on Face to Face that she only called Nina Radetich after Channel 13 General Manager Jim Prather refused to take her call regarding the handling of a News 13 investigation of the company by Darcy Spears. Maybe that’s why Prather is defending what he calls his anchor’s “lapse of judgment.” Others in the news business have other words to describe Radetich’s recommendation of her pitchman boyfriend’s services to spin against her own newsroom’s story on the embattled Tire Works. Freelancer Steve Freiss wonders on tonight’s program how the station could possibly retain its credibility and its star anchor.

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