Welcome along on the 140-day marathon that is the 86th Texas Legislative Session. Representative Dennis Bonnen (R-Angleton) was elected as the Speaker of the House and has since announced house committee assignments. This included new chairs for the Insurance and Public Health Committees. Most of the assignments reflect significant changes since the last session...

In case you didn’t know, several changes to the state’s prescription process for certain controlled substances are taking place. Since September, the Texas State Board of Pharmacy (TSBP) has been issuing new official prescription forms that include advanced security features designed to help deter fraud....

The young woman’s limbs were moving nonstop in sharp spastic jerks, seemingly entirely of their own accord. Her head lolled to the side and her eyes, while open, showed no sign of recognition. It seemed so unreal, like something out of a movie. As the doctor began his exam, it came out that this all began after the patient got a new prescription...

Looking back at the end of my fourth year of medical school, it is astounding to realize how my classmates and I have been shaped and molded from first year medical students struggling to cram basic sciences for hours on end to young physicians with a unique identity. But how did we develop these unique characteristics? What takes a general class of incoming medical students...