I don't take credit someone else sent this response to similar question
and I kept for future reference.
13,012 questionable doctors --produced annually by Ralph Nader group
202-833-3000
Physician Insurance Assoc data sharing project malpractice cases
since 1985
Consumer Union publishes something also
Mary Lou Calvin
Director of Library Services
Warner Norcross & Judd
Grand Rapids MI
phone 616-752-2236
fax: 616-752-2500
>>> "KlaskyM@arentfox.com" 03/27/98 03:11pm >>>
Law-libbers -
I turn to the list, in hopes that some of you know more about "bad
doctors" lists than I! One of our clients is looking for a list of "bad
doctors" (doctors who have been sanctioned for malpractice or
other failure to care for patients). I am familiar with the National
Practitioner Data Bank, but that is *not* what the client is looking
for.
Rather, the client recalls seeing a television news segment in the
past month, where Dr. David Kessler (former FDA commissioner,
current Dean of Yale Law School) announced the availability of a
1998 update to a list of 28,000 names (no, that's not a typo - that's
the number the client gave me) of "bad doctors." The list, in book
form, supposedly costs $28 and is available to consumers.
I have checked Lexis, the Web, FDA, and Yale Law School
without finding any such a creature. I have confirmed with the
client a couple of times that he is not thinking of the NPDB.
Anyone out there have any other ideas? Many thanks for your
help on this Friday afternoon, when the sun is out, and the cherry
blossoms are in full bloom...
Mindy Klasky
Manager of Reference Services
Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn
1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036-5339
email: klaskym@arentfox.com
phone: 202-857-8981
fax: 202-857-6395
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