Recommended Citation
Tristan McIntosh, Elizabeth Pendo, Heidi A. Walsh, Kari A. Baldwin, Patricia King, Emily E. Anderson, Catherine V. Caldicott, Jeffrey D. Carter, Sandra H. Johnson, Katherine Matthews, William A. Norcross, Dana C. Shaffer, and James M. DuBois, What Can State Medical Boards Do to Effectively Address Serious Ethical Violations?, 51 J.L. Med. & Ethics 941 (2024), https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/faculty-articles/1065
Publication Title
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Keywords
State Medical Boards, physician wrongdoing, disciplinary action
Document Type
Article
Abstract
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.