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Megan Zawacki was hired to work at St. Peter's Hospital in Helena, Montana to work with a doctor who specialized in addiction medicine. Because under current law, physician assistants need a supervisor agreement with a physician in Montana, Zawacki spent six months unable to prescribe addiction medicine that she had undergone training to prescribe.
Megan Zawacki started working at St. Peter's Health in Helena, Montana, in 2020 as a physician assistant trained in treating addiction. She had gone through specialized training that allowed her to prescribe Suboxone, a medication to fight opioid addiction, but she couldn't do so for six months.
That's because Zawacki was hired to work with a doctor who specialized in addiction medicine, but that...
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