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As I have written about before, the C.U.R.E.S. database was created and is maintained by the California Department of Justice to track the prescriptions of Californians.  The purpose of this database is ostensibly to detect patient prescription drug abuse and over-prescribing by physicians.  However, C.U.R.E.S. is a huge medical information database that is unprotected from unchecked…

The enactment of The Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 by the federal government led to the creation of the National Practitioner Data Bank, or NPDB, for the reporting of adverse actions, including license discipline, which can be accessed by government and private health care organizations.  The inclusion of inaccurate information in the NPDB…

Health care boards in California are increasingly focusing on supervision issues, which can result in discipline for aiding and abetting unlicensed practice.  Two examples of this are a warning recently issued by the Medical Board of California to its licensees, and a recent reversal of a longstanding position by the Physical Therapy Board.  Licensees should…