Tag: Patient Safety
Patients With Medical Horror Stories Demand the California Medical Board Back Patient Bill of Rights Requiring Transparency, Accountability To Prevent Patient Harm
Los Angeles, CA – Patients who were sexually assaulted by doctors and lost loved ones to doctors’ negligence shared their medical horror stories today and...
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Sexual Assault Allegations Against Salinas Doctor Go Unaddressed By Hospital and Regulators
Los Angeles, CA – The nonprofit patient advocacy group Consumer Watchdog called on state regulators to immediately suspend the license of a Salinas doctor being...
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Atty Gen Falls Behind In Prioritizing Opioid Tracking Tool
Santa Monica, CA — The California Department of Justice told the legislature today that it will delay implementation of a key technological tool for stemming...
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Grieving Parents and Ralph Nader Call Out Gov. Brown
SAN JOSE, CA — With the state of the state speech tomorrow, the parents of a child killed by a doctor who got off with only...
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Parents Who Lost Son To Dangerous Doctor Confront State Medical Board
Your job is to protect the public, not protect dangerous doctors.Shame on you! Shame on all of you!! Tammy and Tim Smick, who lost their...
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California Supreme Court Affirms Medical Board’s Use Of State Prescription Drug Database to Discipline Dangerous Doctors and Prevent Opioid Abuse
Santa Monica, CA – The California Supreme Court today issued a decision affirming the right of the Medical Board of California to use the state...
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U.S. House Narrowly Passes Bill Stripping Rights of Patients Harmed By Medical Negligence
Santa Monica, CA – Consumer Watchdog condemned today’s vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a bill taking away the rights of patients...
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Medical Board Oversight of California Doctors Remains Broken, Consumer Watchdog Will Testify Today at Legislative Hearing into Board’s Future
Sacramento, CA – Physician oversight remains broken four years after a legislative review committee considered shutting down the Medical Board of California if it did...
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California Supreme Court To Review Constitutionality of Medical Malpractice Damages Cap
SANTA MONICA, CA: The California Supreme Court said today it will review the constitutionality of the state’s arbitrary 39-year-old damages cap of $250,000 in medical malpractice cases in Hughes v. Pham. Last week, Consumer Watchdog…
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Consumer Watchdog Asks California Supreme Court To Overturn Cap on Medical Malpractice Damages
SANTA MONICA, CA: Consumer Watchdog has joined the plaintiffs in Hughes v. Pham in asking that the California Supreme Court review the constitutionality of the state’s arbitrary 39-year-old damages cap of $250,000 in medical malpractice…
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Consumer Watchdog Campaign: Senator Boxer Joins Mothers Who Lost Children To Medical Malpractice To Call For Voters’ Support For Prop 46
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Today Senator Barbara Boxer stood with mothers who lost their children to medical negligence in calling on California voters to support for the patient safety protections in Proposition 46. The campaign…
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