Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office made “numerous inaccurate statements” in court filings and statements when it sided with a Houston doctor in her legal battle against the Texas Medical Board, state regulators said.
The medical board’s response came one week after Paxton’s office announced it would not defend the state agency in a lawsuit filed by Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, an ear, nose and throat specialist who has garnered national attention for her opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates and support for using ivermectin, an anti-parasite medication, to treat the virus.
Paxton’s office accused the medical board of “acting on nothing more than personal animosity and spite” when it issued a public reprimand to Bowden over her treatment of a COVID-19 patient…