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N.C. medical board disciplined more doctors in 2009

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

(Updated 8:09 am)

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RALEIGH (AP) — The board regulating the state's doctors and physician assistants has disciplined more than 200 health providers.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported today that the N.C. Medical Board said that delivering substandard care the most common reason for discipline.

Disciplinary actions were up from the previous year, when about 180 practitioners were cited for problems.

The medical board licenses and disciplines the state's 31,000 doctors and nearly 4,000 physician assistants.

The board was recognized for the second straight year by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen as among the most improved nationwide for guarding patient safety. The board previously had been near the bottom of patient advocates' rankings.

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DrMaryJohnson

April 14, 2010 - 9:20 am EDT

So what? Do they want a cookie?

Why won't this newspaper talk about the ones that got away . . . when the Board was at the bottom of the list and doing next to nothing?

http://drjshousecalls.blogspot.com/2010/04/lesson-on-medical-oversight-i...

HotRodLincoln

April 14, 2010 - 11:55 am EDT

Every time I hear somebody pipe up on TORT reform it makes me want to vomit. When was the last time you heard of a Doctor getting sued? The only way you could sue a surgeon would be if he cut your foot off and sewed it back to the side of your head. They are thick as thieves, you can't get one to rat on another. If they would police their own ranks their insurance wouldn't be so high.

DrMaryJohnson

April 14, 2010 - 2:56 pm EDT

Hot Rod, the reason you don't hear about doctors getting sued is because our local newspapers don't report it - unless, of course, the doctor is being bogusly SLAPP-sued for "libel" because she told the government she served the TRUTH . . . that she was fired for reporting malpractice AND INTERVENING TO STOP IT.

In other words, she "ratted" someone else out - in this case a doctor who worked for the Moses Cone Healthcare System.

And she paid for it with her professional life. The people who did her dirty still have their non-profit jobs and collect the phat salaries despite breaking the law. The public that does not rise up against this garbage gets what it deserves - and when they complain about not getting better that's when I want to vomit.

Tea anyone?

You and I agree. Doctors do NOT adequately police their own, and it's the reason the tort reform we need is not going to happen. And I am sick of these NCMB press releases being "reported" as "news".