July-August 2010
July-August 2010
- Cloud over self-regulation: One third of doctors who knew an impaired or incompetent colleague failed to report
- Illinois scrubs online profiles
- The online licensing system that wasn’t: Board renewed no licenses for 8 years while spending $1 million on online system, audit finds
- Massive security breach prompts boards to spend thousands of dollars to suspend some testing
- Testing processes exempt from open records law
- Oral exams head for extinction with California move to drop
- Rules defining negligence not required before imposing discipline
- Strong evidence of sexual assault warrants revocation
- Missing 90-day investigation deadline is not fatal to complaint
- Aggravating circumstances may double original punishment
- Unhappy complainant? No right to second-guess board
- Licensee may challenge agreement not to sue over discipline
- Court refuses to hear challenge of discipline for drug addiction
- Absenteeism due to alcohol abuse is cause to discipline
- Board not obliged to ask whether licensee can afford penalty
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