Thread by @Suburbanbella

I'm asking all TX physicians, as well as the citizens of TX, to please support Betty's Law. This law "would require healthcare workers providing direct patient care and practicing in freestanding ERs and urgent care clinics to wear a photo identification change.org/p/greg-abbott-…

2)badge." The law was introduced by the parents of Betty Wattenbarger, after their 7 y/o autistic little girl was misdiagnosed by a pediatric nurse practitioner(PNP), sent home and died from complications related to sepsis/pneumonia. The PNP did not identify herself as a Nurse

3)Practitioner nor did she have a badge that was visible-so the parents thought she was a physician. Similar laws do indeed exist on the books; however, the associated consequences don't. Violation of Betty's Law may lead to the medical facility being sepsis.org/faces/betty-wa…***

4)fined by the Health and Human Services Commission for every day the violation continues. You would think most people would support this bill. Nope. Not Stephanie Klick, R-TX, the Chair of the House Public Health Committee and an RN. Klick is a legislator who has no respect for

5)medicine and thinks anyone can practice it. She has either sponsored or been involved in bills that would grant NPs/CRNAs unsupervised practice, optometrists the ability to perform eye surgery, psychologists the authority to write prescriptions for psychiatric meds and dental

6)hygienists the license to administer local anesthesia and perform oral blocks. She is also adamantly opposing Betty's Law. Refusing to even meet with Betty's parents. IMO as an EM physician, this law is a must for ERs and UCs. When people are sick and panicky, as they tend to

7)be when entering these types of facilities, it is highly unlikely they will ask who is caring for them or their family. They almost always assume they are seeing a physician. Their focus is on their loved one and they are in a vulnerable position in which to be taken

8)advantage and deceived. Please sign the Change.org petition to pass Betty's Law(HB 2596). Call, send letters and/or use social media to push your legislators to support this bill. It protects all of us who are or will be patients one day. Truth and transparency in

health care:
Contact info of Public Health Committee members attached. Let's do this for Betty... @StephanieKlick @RDBobbyGuerra @stevefortx @GFColeman @VoteLizCampos @NicoleCollier95 @JaceyJetton @TomOliverson @FourPriceTX @Reggie4Tx @ErinForYall