What Can State Medical Boards Do to Effectively Address Serious Ethical Violations?

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 Mathews; William A. Norcross; Dana C. Shaffer; James M. DuBois

doi:10.1017/jme.2024.6

What Can State Medical Boards Do to Effectively Address Serious Ethical Violations?

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 Mathews, William A. Norcross, Dana C. Shaffer, James M. DuBois

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	941-953
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
Volume	51
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/jme.2024.6
State	Published - Mar 13 2023

Keywords

Egregious Wrongdoing
Physician Misconduct
Policy Change
Protecting Patients
State Medical Boards

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McIntosh, T., Pendo, E., Walsh, H. A., Baldwin, K. A., King, P., Anderson, E. E., Caldicott, C. V., Carter, J. D., Johnson, S. H., Mathews, K., Norcross, W. A., Shaffer, D. C., & DuBois, J. M. (2023). What Can State Medical Boards Do to Effectively Address Serious Ethical Violations? Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 51(4), 941-953. https://doi.org/10.1017/jme.2024.6

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