Patients Can Change Patient Safety
There aren’t too many great days for patient safety in state capitols, where the medical establishment tends to rule the roost through the power of its political giving and tentacles. But Monday was a...
View ArticleStatehouse Responds: Threatens to Put Medical Board Out of Business
Last month, at an emotional in hearing in Sacramento and in a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed, we called for the state agency that oversees doctors to become a stronger regulator or to go out of...
View ArticleTop Ten Dangerous Doctors Are Poster Children for Patient Safety Reform
Ten doctors that the California Medical Board failed to take off the streets before repeated acts of negligence and patient endangerment harmed or killed their patients make the case for reforming...
View ArticleHistoric Step for Patient Safety & Victims’ Rights
We just wanted to let you know that we have filed a ballot measure that has been 37 years in the making. If we collect about 750,000 valid signatures, voters will have a chance to adjust for inflation...
View ArticleI Support Planned Parenthood, Why Isn’t Planned Parenthood Supporting Women?
Fifteen women and mothers whose lives have been devastated by medical negligence wrote to the CEOs of Planned Parenthood today asking them to reverse a position that is devastating to women’s health...
View ArticleIs Your Doctor Opposed To Peeing In A Cup? Check The List
A drunk Orange County plastic surgeon reportedly disfigured at least a half dozen patients before losing his license. A Rocklin anesthesiologist was arrested for taking anesthesia through an extra IV...
View ArticleShouldn’t Doctors Have To Pee In The Cup Too?
Pilots, college athletes, bus drivers and Disneyland cast members all are subjected to mandatory drug testing, but not the doctor performing open heart surgery, or a vasectomy. Not yet. Substance abuse...
View ArticleTo the Ballot for Alana and Troy
Last Sunday, at the 10th memorial of my children’s death, we started a march to the ballot for patient safety. I hope you will join us. My seven year old, Alana, and ten year old, Troy, died because an...
View ArticlePatient and Consumer Initiatives Will Save Lives and Money
Originally published in the Sacramento Bee on Sunday, January 12, 2014 No political consultant sees more angles than Richie Ross, but his tangent opposing two pro-consumer ballot initiatives, which...
View ArticleDennis Quaid Calls On Californians To Support Pack Patient Safety Act
“We were lucky to have a happy ending,” actor Dennis Quaid told a crowd at Consumer Watchdog’s Rage for Justice Awards in 2009. He was talking about the near-fatal overdose that his twins experienced...
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