It IS the medical community that needs to get rid of those who are the worst offenders. Obvioulsy you are not familiar with the Medical Review Board who has the authority to REVOKE a license. If you want to rely on the "state" you might as well not bother.
By definition, every patient with cancer or any patient in the ICU or any patient after a serious motor vehicle accident has a "serious medical problem". Unlike you, I am involved in the medical care of and see and talk to those people every single work day.
By "at large", it seems that you mean that you read in a newspaper that something happened, out of the millions of cases in the U.S., somewhere in any city in the U.S.
Such a broad statement would be analogous to someone reading FreeRepublic, coming across your posts where you misspell “incompetence” as “competenct”, misspell “criticism” as “cirticism”, use “your” instead of “you’re” and misspell “incompetenc” in the sentence “You will more incompetenc than your naive, but large ego can handle” and then declaring that FreeRepublic AT LARGE is populated by uneducated people who cannot spell or string a coherent English sentence together.
I don't have to attend your silly medical seminars that don't address this issue.
The meetings that I mentioned are not “seminars”. They are meetings in the Hospital where every medical case in the Hospital that encountered an unexpected problem is reviewed. Every single case.
Too bad your so defensive. For all I know you're a prime offender who like others in the medical profession can not tolerate ANY cirticism.
Actually, in 23 years of medical practice, I have never been sued. I am just more involved in the medical QA mechanism that ensures competency than you, an individual who has not yet spelled “competence” correctly.
< snicker! > This is like the kid teaching his grandma to suck eggs, except in his case, he hasn't a clue how.
I guess this proves he is a simple ignorant blowhard and not an alternative medicine quack. Even the quacks know that the various State medical boards not only hold the power to revoke medical licenses -- and do so regularly -- but in fact they are generally the only body with any such power. The AMA can't, the AAMC can't, even the Feds can't (except to the extent they can revoke DEA prescribing privileges for controlled substances.)
I don't know who this almighty "Medical Review Board" is, supposedly existing outside State control, but thank heavens they have never visited me or any physician I know-- unlike the dozen or so doctors of my acquaintance who have had their licenses suspended or revoked by the Medical Board of the State of Arizona, and usually deservedly so.
Isn't it comforting to know that public policy is being driven by letters to Congressmen written by this kind of uninformed braying jackass?
-ccm