News|Videos|September 29, 2023
Physician disciplinary actions: Was there a pandemic effect?
Author(s)Richard Payerchin, Logan Lutton
Robert E. Oshel, PhD, an adviser to the Public Citizen Health Research Group, considers possible effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on physician discipline.
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In August 2023, Public Citizen, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit consumer advocacy group, published the report, “Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2019-2021.” Report coauthor Robert E. Oshel, PhD, describes a variety of effects that the COVID-19 pandemic could have had on state medical board willingness to consider serious disciplinary actions against physicians.
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