SoloDoc brings to light the persecution of a PCP in North Dakota:
Does a medical board alone have the power to decide what is appropriate care/conduct and what the sanction should be? If the medical board decides that a sloppy appearance is unprofessional and worthy of license forfeiture, is that their unquestionable right? What if they decide that pregnancy termination or withdrawal of life support is malpractice? Dating a former patient? Cheating on a spouse? Voting Libertarian? Belonging to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Where does one draw the line? Is there a line?The reason why this story concerns me so much is because, as a fellow family physician, “there but for the grace of God, go I.” If something like this can happen to him, it could happen to me or any other physician. Nobody is safe.
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So juries of ordinary people shouldn’t sanction doctors, and other doctors shouldn’t sanction doctors. And health courts will do . . . what about all the bitching by doctors? Then they’ll just be bitching about political appointees sanctioning doctors.
A perfect example of why health courts are to be feared more than juuries.
“So juries of ordinary people shouldn’t sanction doctors, and other doctors shouldn’t sanction doctors. And health courts will do . . . what about all the bitching by doctors? Then they’ll just be bitching about political appointees sanctioning doctors.”
Straw man.
That’s not what’s being said around here. Read the article. There were lots of hinky things about the case, including a blatant conflict of interest on the part of the doctor investigating Dr. Hsu’s practice.
If the answer is yes to both of these, then a whole lot of doctors in this country should be losing their licenses soon.
Be careful what you suggest. It might be taken as a policy position by a politician looking to reform the rather broken medical “discipline” system.
But when there is a shortage of good primary care doctors, you don’t start taking medical licenses away because of bad recordkeeping.
The first part is irrelevant to the case in issue not to mention a self-created problem (not just PCPs but across the board).
…I have wondered if Dr. Hsu’s ethnicity had anything to do with him getting singled out.
Ack. Playing the race card. I did not know that the Revruhnd Jesse “can I get a shakedown” Jackson was also an MD. The facts of the case are the best points to argue.
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