A related point: There's already a data bank for sharing information about incompetent doctors.
I choose to live in the real world where some incompetent doctors exist, and patients have a right to expose them for what they are.
This would cut down on in most cases the needles expense and waist of time involved seeing the all to common incompetent doctor.
These are the incompetent doctors, and what does Dr. James do when he finds them?
He had also been exposed to the malpractice of incompetent doctors and its ruinous results.
As a result, she said, the commission's inspectors are unlikely to identify incompetent doctors or "substandard patterns of care."
Such reports are meant to protect the public against incompetent doctors.
Yet nothing in the Clinton health plan, nor the alternatives, directly addresses the problem of incompetent and negligent doctors.
Doctors must be willing to police their colleagues and expel incompetent doctors from the practice.
Hospitals do bear responsibility for doing more to protect patients from incompetent doctors.