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For decades, California law has forbidden the state's medical board from considering victim statements in decision-making. Legislation could reform the process.
Medical boards have sanctioned eight physicians since January 2021 for spreading coronavirus-related misinformation, according to the Federation of State Medical Boards.
Action comes a month after a Times investigation found that the Medical Board of California had reinstated 10 physicians since 2013 who lost their licenses for sexual misconduct.
Melody Gutierrez, Brittny Mejia, Jack Dolan and Kim Christensen/Los Angeles Times Long under fire from patients and consumer advocates, the Medical Board of California is asking lawmakers to pass several far-reaching reforms to help it discipline bad doctors, including lowering the standard of proof