{"id":324663,"date":"2026-06-05T21:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324663\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:25:10","slug":"texas-medical-board-suspends-license-of-austin-doctor-following-manslaughter-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324663\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Medical Board suspends license of Austin doctor following manslaughter charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Medical Board suspended the license of Samuel Byungsung Lee, claiming his continued practice of medicine &#8220;poses a continuing threat to public welfare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 An Austin doctor has had his license temporarily suspended by the Texas Medical Board (TMB).<\/p>\n<p>The TMB said a disciplinary panel temporarily suspended the license of Samuel Byungsung Lee, while claiming that his continued practice of medicine &#8220;poses a continuing threat to public welfare.&#8221; The suspension was effective as of May 27.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension comes after the TMB said Lee was arrested and charged with manslaughter in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>TMB said a temporary suspension hearing with notice will be held as soon as it can, with 10 days&#8217; notice to Lee unless he specifically chooses to waive the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The temporary suspension will remain in place until the TMB takes further action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Medical Board suspended the license of Samuel Byungsung Lee, claiming his continued practice of medicine &#8220;poses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-324663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}