Paul Sisson, SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/story/2023-04-24/big-changes-proposed-for-state-board-that-investigates-doctors-patient-notification-still-not-on-the-list The Medical Board of California may soon get a significant boost to its enforcement powers, but some are already saying that proposed changes do...

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

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.

Los Angeles, CA – In response to Consumer Watchdog’s challenge to Medical Insurance Exchange of California’s (“MIEC”) proposed rate increase on doctors’ and medical providers’ medical malpractice insurance, MIEC...

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 enforcement process, how the...

Statute bars medical board from restoring licenses revoked from sex offenders' By Cheryl Clark, MED PAGE TODAY https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/100935 A new California law prohibits the state's medical board from granting a license to...

After her daughter and grandson died following what the Medical Board of California alleged to be negligent care from a Bakersfield OB-GYN, Tracy Dominguez embarked on a crusade to...

By Kerry Klein, KVPR NPR Radio Central California https://www.kvpr.org/health/2022-09-14/bakersfield-hospitals-left-to-clean-up-after-ob-gyn-accused-of-negligence By the time OB-GYN Dr. Arthur Park surrendered his license in late 2021, all four of Bakersfield’s hospitals had been sued by...

By Kerry Klein, KVPR NPR Radio Central California September 13, 2022 https://www.kvpr.org/health/2022-09-13/the-medical-board-accused-a-bakersfield-ob-gyn-of-negligence-but-he-kept-practicing-for-two-decades The California medical board accused Bakersfield obstetrician Dr. Arthur Park of gross negligence following several patient deaths. But he kept...

By Kerry Klein, KVPR NPR Radio Central California September 12, 2022 https://www.kvpr.org/health/2022-09-12/kern-countys-mothers-and-babies-are-dying-and-no-one-seems-certain-why Kern County has one of the highest infant mortality rates in California and mothers die during pregnancy and childbirth in...