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Prison Deaths Spotlight How Boards Handle Impaired, Disciplined Physicians
Andrew A. Skolnick
JAMA. 1998;280:1387-1390.
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THE DEATHS in recent years of several prison inmates under the care of physicians with records of criminal or professional misconduct has critics calling on medical licensing boards to be more vigilalnt in protecting patients from physicians who commit serious offenses.
Stronger safeguards are needed generally, critics argue, but prison populations are particularly vulnerable. In some cases, rehabilitating physician offenders has included licensure restrictions that led them to jobs in correctional settings, where surging inmate populations have sorely stressed medical staffing and care.
"Too many state medical boards, despite a clear duty to protect the public, still believe their first responsibility is to rehabilitate ‘impaired physicians' and to protect them from the public's prying eyes," said Sidney M. Wolfe, MD, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, in Washington, DC.
Dale L. Austin, deputy executive vice president of the Federation of State Medical Boards in Dallas-Fort Worth, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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