Nevada Stops "Medical Assistants" from Giving Injections

They should have let her speak. That was the message Tracy Hurst had for the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners on Tuesday after a judge approved her lawyer’s request for an injunction that prevents emergency regulations allowing medical assistants to give flu shots.

District Judge Kathleen Delaney ruled the board violated the state’s open meeting law during a Sept. 18 hearing to pass the regulations, which would have permitted medical assistants to give flu shots and other vaccines, but also prohibit them from administering injections of cosmetic drugs such as Botox.
At that hearing, some doctors on the board said they had to leave for luncheon engagements and, in danger of losing its quorum, the board voted unanimously to pass the regulations.

Three people had yet to testify, including Hurst, owner of the Medical Spa at Summerlin, and on Tuesday, Delaney ruled the board had violated the open meeting law by voting before all public comment was taken....