Patient safety should always trump physician confidentiality. Shouldn't the state medical board with a mission of consumer protection endorse that?
At one time, the California Medical Board had a "diversion progam" that allowed physicians caught abusing drugs and alcohol to choose a secret rehab program to avoid discipline. And the same addicted doctors used this program. Over and over again. All it did was protect bad doctors and harm their p…
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