Kudos to the North Carolina Medical Board for wanting to post doctors' malpractice information on its Web site. And thumbs down on the state’s physician association for opposing it, claiming it could be misleading.
The Better Business Bureau has long served a role in helping consumers make decisions about what vendors they should use. The public is intelligent enough to understand the context and weight for individual plans. Egotistical doctors don’t think so however.
Actual malpractice payment amounts or patient names aren’t disclosed, according to the article in the Raleigh News & Observer. The Web site would note that malpractice payments don't always suggest negligence, and that some specialties draw more lawsuits. North Carolina says that about four percent of the state’s doctors are on the malpractice list.
Doctors need to face the inevitable tide of quality and cost transparency. They are vendors like everyone else. North Carolina is the 23rd state to disclose medical practice information.
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Posted by Shawn Whalen on July 2, 2008 at 10:43 AM
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