The board reprimanded Dr. Mary Bowden last year after she prescribed ivermectin to a patient at a Fort Worth hospital during the height of the pandemic.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday announced he’s taking up the case of a Houston doctor disciplined by the state’s medical board last year for trying to treat a patient with ivermectin at a hospital where she did not have privileges.
It’s the latest example of Paxton going after a state agency he’s charged with defending, in this case, the Texas Medical Board.
The board, which licenses physicians to practice in the state, reprimanded Dr. Mary Talley Bowden in October for prescribing ivermectin to a COVID-19 patient in a Fort Worth hospital during the height of the pandemic in October 2021. Bowden asked the board to reconsider its finding, but the board issued a final order upholding its decision in December…