Thousands Of Doctors Practicing Despite Errors, Misconduct by Peter Eisler and Barbara Hansen. USA TODAY. August 20, 2013.
(1) By law "adverse actions" by any of the nation's 878,000 licensed doctors must be filed with the _________________ for the purpose of monitoring by state medical boards.
(2) Of the nearly ____________ doctors who had their clinical privileges or taken away more than __________ never were fined or subject to a license action by a medical board.
(3) Nearly ________ doctors cited as an "immediate threat to health and safety" did not have their licenses restricted or taken away.
(4) Roughly ________ physicians were responsible for 10% of all the payments for malpractice settlements. However in some malpractice cases some doctors may settle without _________ in order to avoid______________.
(5) Three factors cited by medical professional leader that slow prompt action by medical boards are laws, _____________ and __________.
(6) True or False: Medical board disciplinary practices and regulations vary greatly from state to state.
(7) True or False: All hospitals promptly file reports when a physician is disciplined.
(8) _______ % of hospital had never reported to the National Practitioner Data Base any action restricting or revoking a doctors clinical privileges as of 2011.
(9) Physician discipline hits a bottleneck in the hospital ____________ committee according to a physician who served as chief of medical staff in two hospitals.
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