Thursday, February 11, 2016

Patients must not be Kept in the Dark about their Doctor’s Medical Malpractice

Consumers Union Petitions State Medical Board

(Sacramento, California) – February 11th, 2016 – Often the California Medical Board takes disciplinary action against doctors who have acted negligently while providing care or have been caught in a sexual harassment incident or while using drugs. The doctors placed on probation are required by law to inform their malpractice insurers and the hospitals that employ them. But strangely enough they are not required to intimate their patients, as reported by latimes.com.

The state medical boards have no intention of changing the rules any time soon. Since the doctors on their own will not intimate patients about their licensing status, patients have no way of knowing the truth unless they check their physician’s status themselves. But some people believe a doctor should not have to divulge this type of information. How many people are perfect?


The Consumers Union which is the advocacy wing of Consumer Reports have made a petition to the board asking the board to make it compulsory for doctors to inform their patients if they have been subjected to disciplinary action by the board for hospital neglect. Patients must be notified at the time they make the appointment. Sacramento, CA medical malpractice lawyers too advocate this measure strongly but many other people do not. America needs more doctors – rules like this only push people away.

In view of this petition a Patient Notification task Force has been formed by the board but surprisingly enough the task force did not even discuss the petition at their last meeting. Even the amended proposal formulated by the consumer’s union which stated that the only small percentage of doctors who have been reprimanded for serious offenses must be made to inform their patient, was also not brought up in the meeting.

According to medical malpractice attorneys in Northern California, it is believed by a few people that the patients have a legal right to know about their doctor’s license status and malpractice or hospital neglect issues. But the question is whether or not the doctor should assume the responsibility of intimating his/her patients about such issues or is it the duty of the patient to inquire about a doctor before an appointment.

California is already making it rough on doctors. If California continues to be anti-doctor, that may be one unhealthy state – more so than this broken state already is.

What does the board think?

The board made it very clear that they think it is patient’s responsibility. They are focused to make improvements in their website and equip it with user friendly interface so that the patients can easily access information about a physician they wish to consult.

Sacrament, CA medical malpractice lawyers believe that very few people will actually access the website whenever they need an appointment and other people believe it is just a waste of time to do that since if a doctor really was incompetent the hospital would not even have him on duty. It must also be noted that elderly people rarely operate computers or use the Internet and hence most patients will never learn about the malpractice but this matters very little since in a litigious state like California, when is a doctor not being sued?

If you have been neglect by a doctor or a hospital and you are suffering because of it, you need to call us. If a surgery went off course and you do not know why and you are not better, it looks like you need to click right here: Medical-Malpractice.USAttorneys. Give us a call, this is what we are here for.

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Legal professionals have the skills and resources to gather and assess evidence in order to determine who is liable for a patient’s injuries or death. If you are a victim of a malpractice or hospital neglect, all you need is to consult a Northern California medical malpractice lawyer now.  

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