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Ben Glass
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Posted by Ben GlassJune 15, 2008 6:14 AM
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The North Carolina Medical Board is looking at how detailed information should be reported and what the public should be told concerning the records of doctors’, including medical malpractice judgments.

Some information about providers was detailed by a law enacted last August to be posted on the Web site of the medical board, but other information was not specified how to be handled.

Since 2001 any charges and allegations against doctors, as well as disciplinary action taken by the board, has been posted. Rules are being proposed now which would include medical malpractice judgments over a seven-year period.

According to Dr. Janelle Rhyne, board president, the goal is to better serve the public, rather than harm doctors.

However, opponents of the proposed rules say claims are settled for many reasons, including business decisions by an insurance carrier.

The North Carolina Medical Society is not opposed to malpractice judgments and settlements being posted, but wants only those resulting in public disciplinary action to be posted.

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Steve Lombardi
Posted by Steve Lombardi
June 15, 2008 11:39 AM

Ben: Your post is well done, but the message a sad commentary on the how important issues are being reframed to ignore the victims rights, in this case the patients, and to create sympathy for those who need no sympathy, the medical service provider. How is it we can find out more information about the cars we drive then those that make the decisions that can kill us? I can't understand why a centralized information database where all suits are recorded and made public, when lawsuits are already public information, is being resisted by those in the medical profession? Patients should have all information readily available when deciding on what medical service provider should be hired; not just the information used in marketing medical services. It should be just as easy to get information about whether the doctor has had any wrong-side, wrong-patient, wrong-proceedure surgical cases as it is to see how well a Ford Focus holds up in a 30 mph crash. Steve Lombardi

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