The question: Can medical assistants legally administer flu shots or Botox injections?
The answer: Depends on whom you ask.
A Nevada judge ruled Monday that emergency regulations permitting medical assistants to give flu shots, while prohibiting them from administering injections of cosmetic drugs, cannot go into effect.
An attorney said the statute is ambiguous, a way for the board to create "hype" and destroy the practices of medical spas. If the law is valid, why hasn't it been enforced for the past 30 years? "Certain plastic surgeons are trying to recapture business lost to medical spas," the attorney said. "They abused their power on the medical board."
