The Texas House Appropriations Subcommittee on Regulatory, held hearings regarding complaints against the Texas Medical Board, on October 23, 2007.

Several AAPS members as well as AAPS General Counsel Andrew Schlafly testified at the hearings.

Below are links to the entire 11 hours of hearings as well as selected portions of AAPS related testimony:

• AAPS Files Suit Against Texas Medical Board - 12/20/2007

• Read a transcript of hearing (PDF format)

• Download the entire 11 hours of testimony in MP3 format
  You can right click on the link and select "save as" and download all 154Mb to your hard drive.

• Listen to a stream of the entire 11 hours of testimony

• View the archived video from the Texas House Website (requires Real Player)

• Testimony of Andrew Schlafly, Esq., AAPS General Counsel
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• Testimony of Roland Chalifoux, DO
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• Testimony of Shirley Pigott, MD
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• Testimony of Steven Hotze, MD
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• Testimony of Texas Medical Board Member, Roberta Kalafut, DO,
  regarding anonymous complaints made to the board by her husband
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• Representative Debbie Riddle, addressing witness Dr. Bill Rea:
  "... But one of the things that is making me absolutely FURIOUS, and I'm just going to say it right here, is the people behind you, and the expressions on their faces, of such ARROGANCE, while a man of your character, and of your accomplishments, and your dignity is sitting there testifying, you folks need to be ashamed."
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• Representative Corbin van Arsdale, addressing witness TMB Board member Tim Turner: "... I do think there are a couple of problems, based on the things I've seen and things I've heard here today .... I do have some bad fibes about some things that to me were confirmed today ...."
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