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Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding member and senior trial attorney.
State Medical Boards are utterly failing to discipline physicians who have been sanctioned by hospitals for a variety of reasons, including committing medical errors. A report shows that “63 percent of the doctors whose hospital privileges were restricted or revoked were not disciplined by the state’s Board of Medicine.” This should be unacceptable.
The best way to reduce medical costs is to reduce medical errors. To reduce medical errors, there needs to be greater oversight by the states’ medical boards.
I hope this study compels the boards to do a better of job going forward. Otherwise, patient safety is at risk.
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About the author:
Mr. Zambri is a Board-Certified Civil Trial Attorney and Past-President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. He has been acknowledged by Washingtonian magazine as a “Big Gun” and among the “top 1%” of all of the more than 80,000 lawyers in the Washington metropolitan area. The magazine also acknowledged him as “one of Washington’s best–most honest and effective lawyers” who specializes in medical malpractice matters, product liability claims, and serious automobile accident claims. Mr. Zambri was recently (2011 edition) acknowledged as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” by Best Lawyers, and has also been repeatedly named a “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics magazine (2011)–a national publication that honors the top lawyers in the country.
Mr. Zambri is regularly asked to present seminars to lawyers and doctors, as well as both medical and law students concerning medication errors, medical malpractice litigation, and safety improvements.
If you have any questions about your legal rights, please email Mr. Zambri at [email protected].
