The Public Calls on Legislature to Maintain Existing Law Protecting Consumers  A complete reversal by the Medical Board of California regarding disclosure and accountability in...

Board Set To Discipline License of Repeat Offender Doctor Bakersfield, CA – The Osteopathic Medical Board of California (OMBC) and the Attorney General’s office filed...

San Diego, Simi Valley, Latest to Face Closures Sacramento, CA – Assemblymember Akilah Weber’s bill, AB 1895 requiring the state to conduct community impact assessments before...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M9mx7-Mgt0 Consumer Watchdog alerts the public of new rights that California patients have when their consumer complaint is investigated by the Medical Board of California....

Los Angeles, CA – As the Medical Board of California meets in Los Angeles today, Consumer Watchdog released a Consumer Alert video notifying the...

 Sacramento, CA – The Osteopathic Medical Board of California (OMBC) announced at their January Quarterly Board meeting that for the first time they will consider...

Sacramento, CA – Consumer advocates will address the Medical Board of California at a public hearing today to persuade the Board to follow the law...

Sacramento, CA – California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation containing reforms long sought by patient advocates that will increase families’ voice in medical board...

Sacramento, CA – Patients will have a greater voice in investigations into harm caused by a doctor under legislation California lawmakers sent to the governor...

Sacramento, CA – Legislation to improve oversight of dangerous doctors and give consumers rights at the Medical Board of California was approved by the California...

Sacramento, CA – Legislation to improve physician oversight and give consumers rights at the Medical Board of California was approved by the state Senate 32-1...

Public Control, Mandatory Patient Interview, Among Bill’s Consumer Protections  Sacramento, CA – Legislation to strengthen consumer protections and improve physician oversight at the Medical Board...

Kern County, CA – Supervisor Leticia Perez and the Kern County Board of Supervisors will proclaim May 2023 to be Latina Maternal Health Awareness...

Sacramento, CA – Proposed legislation would enact important changes to hold dangerous doctors more accountable in California, but excludes crucial reforms that will continue threaten...

San Diego, CA -- Patients in California are exposed to harm by dangerous doctors because California law does not quickly discipline or require them to...

Two years ago, and four years before that, and at every legislative review of the Medical Board of California in recent memory, Californians have...

Initial findings of the Medical Board Enforcement Monitor, released this week, confirm that the Medical Board’s investigations of doctors are hamstrung by funding shortfalls and that prosecutions are undermined by a crippling division between investigators and attorneys housed in different agencies.

At its Quarterly Board meeting last week, multiple members of the state board that regulates doctors for the first time seriously acknowledged activists’ call...

Consumer Watchdog and a volunteer team of advocates attended and participated in last week’s Osteopathic Medical Board Quarterly meeting to testify on issues with...

The Executive Director of the Medical Board of California William Prasifka announced his resignation last week stating that his last day will be December...