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[toastykitten]

Whenever I'm feeling a little bored, I like to go to the Medical Board Enforcement Public Document Search page to dig up dirt on doctors. The site pulls up PDFs of legal documents for these California doctors; I don't know when they made these publicly available, but they are fascinating. Or maybe I should say horrifying. I can't link to any person directly, but if you just type in random last names like "Jones" or "Smith" you can get a lot of stuff. Some of these are fairly benign - citations for forgetting to report a change of address, for example, but others you could make whole novels out of. The most interesting ones are the ones with the type: Accusation/Petition to Revoke. These are the accusations that could get a doctor's license suspended or revoked, for things such as sexual harassment, prescription abuse, etc. Some of these include:

1. The alcoholic who performed a C-section while drunk. And relapsed after being ordered to go through rehab.
2. Sleeping with a psychiatric patient with well-documented mental illnesses and then moving in with her. Oh, and getting her pregnant. Then dumping her.
3. Misdiagnosis leading to serious illness or death. Incompetence leading to serious illness or death. Negligence leading to serious illness or death.
4. Filling and refilling prescriptions for drugs such as Xanax for known drug addicts.
5. Prescribing Xanax, Vicodin, Prozac, Vibraymycin, Ambien, Zoloft and Efflexor all at/around the same time for the same depressive patient. And refilling them without ever seeing the patient.

Yeah, so is your doctor in here? I hope not. You know what's really scary? Some of these people get their licenses back.