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Medical Board Launches New, Consumer-Friendly Web Site Address
SACRAMENTO—The Medical Board of California announced today a new, consumer-friendly, easy-to-remember Web site address. The new address will become a familiar part of the board's communications efforts to make the board better known to those who need to find it. The new address is www.caldocinfo.ca.gov.
"We are excited about this new change," commented Board President Hazem Chehabi, M.D. "This continues our important and strategic effort to do everything possible to fulfill the board's consumer protection mission by making it easier for consumers and others to find out about us, and to access our services."
The board's Web site was launched in 1997, and is used by the public, physicians, allied healthcare professionals, reporters, hospitals, credentialing organizations, insurance companies and many others. The board is averaging over 400,000 hits per month on its site. The most popular feature is its individual physician profiles, where the following information is available.
If a person is licensed as a physician in California
A physician's address of record
The date a physician's license was issued, and the date it will expire if not renewed
The medical school a physician graduated from, and year of graduation
The status of a physician's license, e.g., renewed and current, revoked, retired, etc.
If a physician has been formally accused of wrongdoing by the Medical Board
If a physician has been disciplined by the Medical Board of California or the medical board of another state
If a physician has been convicted of a felony, reported to the board after Jan. 3, 1991
Malpractice judgments or arbitration awards reported to the board after Jan. 1, 1993
Any hospital disciplinary actions that resulted in the termination or revocation of a physician's hospital staff privileges for a medical disciplinary cause or reason reported to the board after Jan. 1, 1995
Malpractice settlements within a 10-year period – when three or more if a physician is in a low-risk specialty, and when four or more if a physician is in a high-risk specialty – reported to the board after Jan. 1, 2003
Sexual abuse is a form a medical malpractice
Sexual abuse of or sexual misconduct with a patient is also a serious issue. Six to ten percent of psychiatrists surveyed confessed to having engaged in sexual contact with a patient and in a longitudinal study.
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The principle that prohibits physicians from disclosing confidential comments made to them by patients unless required to do so by law. The law may require physicians to violate patient confidentiality if the patient poses a serious threat to his or her own health and the well-being or that of others.
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In the law of negligence, as a defense, a defendant's allegation that the injured plaintiff recognized the danger of the plaintiff's course of action but, nonetheless, willingly chose to risk such danger.
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The total care of patients with progressive, incurable illness. In palliative care, the focus of care is on quality of life. Control of pain and other physical symptoms, and psychological, social and spiritual problems is considered most important.
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