A medical license should be like a driver’s license, where you can’t get around a suspension or revocation by getting one in another state. If a doctor actually practices in 2 or more states, he should meet the requirements in those states, but perhaps there should be a federal medical license. I would hate to think that my surgeon has lost his license in another state and is now about to cut me open.
We had a doctor years ago who didn’t seem to care about his patients at all. His aides did all the work. We dropped him for another doctor. Not long after he lost his license to practice in our state due to improper touching of female patients. He moved to another state and started practicing there. Great system of checks we have. A national system of some kind would seem appropriate.
Take it from an old Med-Mal guy who has done 1000’s of Doc and Hospital cases, there are a lot more of these incompetents out there. Anyway, this one is on the HCA hospital’s Credentialing Committee – they are supposed to confirm all of the information in the Doc’s CV and practice history (including a National Data Base reporting check) when he applies for privileges to practice at the hospital – a reasonable due diligence would have turned up his checkered history – BUT – under served areas (no rich patients) are loath to ask too many questions when they have an applicant in an under served, overstressed specialty. West VA is heavy in mining, agriculture, trucking and poor judgement accident injuries so an orthopod (even a grade C one) would be a BILLING asset to the hospital as there would be plenty of cases to keep him busy and the billing office humming w/ Work Comp and 3rd party insurance invoices. It’s a real old joke, but “what do you call the med student who graduated last in his/her class ?? You call them ‘doctor’
There’s an old joke that seems appropriate: What do you call the guy who finishes last in med school? “Doctor”…
Credentialing bodies at hospitals have access to the national practitioners databank, which reports all malpractice settlements. Therefore the hospital should have picked up multiple claims before they let him practice there.
Its pretty common in border areas for docs to have multiple state licenses; many of them have an office in one state and an “outreach” clinic in the neighboring rural area.
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A medical license should be like a driver’s license, where you can’t get around a suspension or revocation by getting one in another state. If a doctor actually practices in 2 or more states, he should meet the requirements in those states, but perhaps there should be a federal medical license. I would hate to think that my surgeon has lost his license in another state and is now about to cut me open.
We had a doctor years ago who didn’t seem to care about his patients at all. His aides did all the work. We dropped him for another doctor. Not long after he lost his license to practice in our state due to improper touching of female patients. He moved to another state and started practicing there. Great system of checks we have. A national system of some kind would seem appropriate.
Works the same way with driver’s licenses. I know too many people who have valid Fl licenses and suspended or revoked from other states.
But no one wants to have their rights infringed upon by a national ID. So it won’t stop.
Works the same way with driver’s licenses. I know too many people who have valid Fl licenses and suspended or revoked from other states.
But no one wants to have their rights infringed upon by a national ID. So it won’t stop.
How in the heck did this guy (NOT Dr.!)get through medical school if he was that bad? This is a good case for a national license to practice medicine.
It appears not all the ‘C’ students went into insurance.
Take it from an old Med-Mal guy who has done 1000’s of Doc and Hospital cases, there are a lot more of these incompetents out there. Anyway, this one is on the HCA hospital’s Credentialing Committee – they are supposed to confirm all of the information in the Doc’s CV and practice history (including a National Data Base reporting check) when he applies for privileges to practice at the hospital – a reasonable due diligence would have turned up his checkered history – BUT – under served areas (no rich patients) are loath to ask too many questions when they have an applicant in an under served, overstressed specialty. West VA is heavy in mining, agriculture, trucking and poor judgement accident injuries so an orthopod (even a grade C one) would be a BILLING asset to the hospital as there would be plenty of cases to keep him busy and the billing office humming w/ Work Comp and 3rd party insurance invoices. It’s a real old joke, but “what do you call the med student who graduated last in his/her class ?? You call them ‘doctor’
This guy never completed a surgical residency, and has now legally changed his name !!!! Unbelievable !!!
Or politics…
There’s an old joke that seems appropriate: What do you call the guy who finishes last in med school? “Doctor”…
Credentialing bodies at hospitals have access to the national practitioners databank, which reports all malpractice settlements. Therefore the hospital should have picked up multiple claims before they let him practice there.
Its pretty common in border areas for docs to have multiple state licenses; many of them have an office in one state and an “outreach” clinic in the neighboring rural area.