Columnist Urges Overhaul of Medical Board of California
Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik writes that the Medical Board of California has "sat inertly by while its disciplinary program against incompetent and dangerous doctors falls to pieces" and that the board's regulation of physician-owned outpatient surgical centers "is almost nonexistent." According to Hiltzik, lawmakers are "talking about rubbing out the current membership and their executive director" as part of a legislative re-authorization process that "plainly is needed."
- "Legislature Should Pull Plug on Inept Medical Board of California" (Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4/26).