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Med Mal News

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
January 27, 2006

Baltimore Sun Warns: MD Consumers Kept in the Dark

A series of articles published in The Baltimore Sun in December questions whether Maryland's system for policing medical care standards is working as it should. (Schulte, “Masking Malpractice Cases,” The Baltimore Sun, 12/18/20.) The series charges that the state's Board of Physicians, a group created 3 years ago to oversee the enforcement of medical care standards, is not adequately investigating those accused of repeated malpractice. According to the articles, the Board also gives little information on its consumer Web site, failing, for instance, to list malpractice case data that Virginia's Web site posts concerning doctors licensed in both Maryland and Virginia.

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