McIntosh Tristan, Pendo Elizabeth, Walsh Heidi A, Baldwin Kari A, King Patricia, Anderson Emily E, Caldicott Catherine V, Carter Jeffrey D, Johnson Sandra H, Mathews Katherine, Norcross William A, Shaffer Dana C, DuBois James M
BIOETHICS RESEARCH CENTER, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, ST. LOUIS, MO, USA.
CENTER FOR HEALTH LAW STUDIES, SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, SAINT LOUIS, MO, USA.
J Law Med Ethics. 2023;51(4):941-953. doi: 10.1017/jme.2024.6. Epub 2024 Mar 13.
State Medical Boards (SMBs) can take severe disciplinary actions (e.g., license revocation or suspension) against physicians who commit egregious wrongdoing in order to protect the public. However, there is noteworthy variability in the extent to which SMBs impose severe disciplinary action. In this manuscript, we present and synthesize a subset of 11 recommendations based on findings from our team's larger consensus-building project that identified a list of 56 policies and legal provisions SMBs can use to better protect patients from egregious wrongdoing by physicians.
州医学委员会(SMBs)可以对犯下严重不当行为的医生采取严厉的纪律处分(例如,吊销或暂停执照),以保护公众。然而,SMBs实施严厉纪律处分的程度存在显著差异。在本手稿中,我们基于团队更大规模的共识构建项目的结果,提出并综合了11项建议中的一部分,该项目确定了56项政策和法律条款清单,SMBs可利用这些条款更好地保护患者免受医生严重不当行为的侵害。