What's wrong with creating a secret system for physicians to undergo addiction treatment without any impact on their licenses?
What do patients and their families need to know before telling their stories to the media?
What's an 87-year-old doctor to do when he's banned from performing surgery but still allowed to practice medicine? Prescribe medical marijuana in a dubious clinic.
An aging doctor has been ordered to pay part of a $6.2 million judgment for negligence in performing two abortions. Why is he still practicing?
Aging doctors may not know when they're too old to practice safely. In the name of patient safety, should we be monitoring doctors as they get older?
When is a doctor too old to practice safely? That depends, says Dr. William Norcross, who founded a national doctors' remedial education center and now advocates for regular testing of aging doctors for cognitive problems like dementia.
Why did the California Medical Board take so long after Michael Jackson's death to revoke Conrad Murray's medical license? The board's spokesman explains.
The Medical Board of California finally has filed a petition to revoke Dr. Conrad Murray’s medical license, nearly three years after Michael Jackson died after taking anesthesia drugs Murray gave him. So what took so long?
The fallout of medical debt, good news for Gulf oil spill victims, a murder charge for a doctor and more from our Daily Briefing.
What you can learn from the Minneapolis Star Tribune's great investigation into how Minnesota's medical board failures to sanction doctors even for the most egregious kinds of malpractice.
