An outsized irony attaches to the health care industry in Texas and nationally. It underscores the fact that highly trained professionals focused on helping people at their most vulnerable often face personal risks and grave liability concerns for doing so.
The medical realm is unquestionably one of the most closely scrutinized and regulated occupational spheres on the planet. Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others routinely deal with rules and requirements that could scarcely be imagined in other industries. And they do so while knowing that they are being judged by the public in a most exacting way.
