Kellen McGovern Jones – Senior Investigative Reporter
There is a cost to defending yourself against the Texas Medical Board, and it is far from cheap.
Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, an ENT in Houston, told the Texas Senate Finance Committee on Thursday that she has spent $260,000 in legal fees and other costs, such as Open Records fees, to defend herself in the Texas Medical Board’s (TMB) case. The TMB filed a case against her for attempting to treat a COVID-infected Tarrant County Sheriff’s Deputy during the pandemic.
Although pandemic-era doctors argued over its efficacy, Bowden wanted to treat the sick man with ivermectin. She previously told The Dallas Express that in the several thousand COVID-19 cases she treated, she had found ivermectin to be highly effective when used in the early stages of the illness.
Bowden opened her remarks to the Committee by calling out a perceived logical inconsistency in the TMB’s actions.
“TMB protects the public from dangerous doctors; presumably they think I’m dangerous, yet they are in no hurry to process my case,” she said. “The average time of complaint resolution is 292 days.”
Bowden’s case is now in its third year, and the Board’s attorneys have asked the Administrative Court for several continuances.
