The accountabilities and operations of state medical boards can have significant implications for hospitals and health systems in terms of their efforts to ensure quality care and patient safety. This [...]
There are many more examples of ways in which public members can strengthen their boards by raising issues and concerns and introducing agenda items that licensee members are unlikely to [...]
I argue here that licensure not only fails to protect consumers from incompetent physicians, but, by raising barriers to entry, makes health care more expensive and less accessible. Institutional oversight [...]
Thus, allow me to suggest a couple of “second-best” options that may have a better chance of making a more immediate impact.First, conduct periodic occupational licensing reviews. In addition to [...]
Only a small segment of the physician population has been formally disciplined. According to a 1999 Institute of Medicine report, those sanctioned are health care professionals who “may be incompetent, [...]