What Are Reasons Can a Chiropractor Lose Their License?

As a chiropractor, you provide essential healthcare services making adjustments and manipulating patient bodies. Accordingly, chiropractors are bound to follow professional standards to make sure their patients are safe in their care.
However, not all chiropractors comply with these professional standards. If you’re a chiropractor and don’t meet these standards, there can be serious repercussions that can even lead to you losing your chiropractic license.
Below is some typical conduct that could cause a chiropractor to be sanctioned and lose their Virginia chiropractor license:

• Fraud

• Violations of Virginia and federal laws and regulations

• Sexual boundary issues

• Criminal convictions

• Alcohol and drug abuse

• Negligence or incompetence

• Failing to maintain patient confidentiality

• Poor supervision

• Mental impairment
• Mishandling or altering patient records
 

The above unprofessional behavior, if proven, can be devastating to a chiropractors career. Having a strong attorney can mean the difference between practicing chiropractic with interruption and facing restrictions, a suspension, or a revocation of your license.