TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 19, 2021

The medical license of state Sen. Joey Hensley, a doctor in Hohenwald, was put on probation last year after he admitted to writing 47 prescriptions for a second cousin with whom he was in a sexual relationship. At a disciplinary hearing before the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners in October 2020, Hensley said under oath that the relationship lasted 10 weeks, so the board only disciplined him for two prescriptions that fell within that time frame. According to The Tennessean, transcripts and depositions obtained by the paper indicate the relationship lasted “years, not months.” These documents “raise consequential questions about whether the senator was honest while testifying at his discipline hearing last October,” the paper writes. Hensley, who has served in the General Assembly since 2003, declined to comment on the allegations.