By Emily Alpert Reyes, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2024-03-31/california-cosmetic-surgery Inside a clinic wedged next to a smoke shop in a South Los Angeles strip mall, Dr. Mohamad Yaghi operated on a 28-year-old woman who had traveled from Las Vegas to have...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58t6AHiK1Oo Nearly 30 years ago, her mother died as a result of a plastic surgery malpractice case. She dealt with the trauma through performance and art but as Ryan Yamamoto reports, the healing began which are used the tragedy...

By Tom Kisken, VENTURA COUNTY STAR https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/health/2024/03/08/ventura-county-hospital-violations-2023/72635858007 State regulators received more complaints, found more violations and assessed more fines at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks than any other hospital in Ventura County last year. California Department of Public...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZmTx3mhJlY Consumer Watchdog's Carmen Balber says it shouldn't have taken the medical board almost 3 years to post its case against the doctor. 

Governor signed SB 815 repealing AB 2098 By John Woolfolk, MERCURY NEWS https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/06/gov-newsom-signs-bill-repealing-doctor-muzzling-covid-misinformation-law-he-signed-a-year-ago/ It came without fanfare or even explanation. But California has quietly raised the white flag on its controversial attempt to police what doctors say about COVID-19 vaccines and...

By Melody Gutierrez, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-15/lawmakers-take-up-bill-to-overhaul-state-board-that-investigates-doctors# When Angela Contreras complained to the state’s medical board last fall that a Long Beach doctor had left gauze in her brother’s abdomen during surgery, she waited — and waited — for the...

Consumer Watchdog volunteers and families share their medical negligence stories for reform within the healthcare system.

Families who lost their loved ones ask the Medical Board for justice.

By Kerry Klein, KVPR https://www.kvpr.org/local-news/2023-08-29/kern-county-maternal-mortality-at-the-center-of-a-state-medical-board-meeting Following years of advocacy work from locals, the Medical Board of California held a meeting in Bakersfield to learn more about the region’s high maternal mortality rate. Kern County’s pregnancy-related mortality rate is one of the highest...

By Annie Sciacca, SACRAMENTO BEE https://www.sacbee.com/news/article278656929.html California doctors and state lawmakers are squaring off once again over the future of the Medical Board of California, which is responsible for licensing and disciplining doctors and has been criticized by patient advocates...