Sacramento California Professional License Defense Law Blog

The behavior, medical decisions and even bedside manner of California doctors is open for scrutiny and critique. One unhappy patient can make allegations that can affect a doctor's reputation and, ultimately, his or her right to practice. Any practitioner who is facing accusations or dealing with any threat to his or her license has every right to consider their doctor license defense needs.

A doctor in another state is facing the suspension of his license for two years, and he will be on probation for four years. All of this happened because people expressed concerns about what some are calling paranoid behavior. During his period of probation, he will not be able to practice alone. Before making this determination, the state licensing board required him to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

Possibly, when you started working as a contractor, you just wanted to make the ends meet. But as you kept at it, you gained a reputation for quality. The demand for your work grew, and you realized you could expand. Hiring other people could allow you to take on larger and more lucrative work—but if you don’t fill out all the licensing paperwork along the way, you might be putting your license at risk.

This might be the situation in which nine different California contractors now find themselves after they got caught in an undercover sting run by the Contractors State License Board (CSLB).

Technology has changed many things, and the medical field is no different. Many patients are now looking for assistance with simple medical problems online, which has caused more people to turn to telemedicine for certain problems. However, some California doctors may have concerns about the issue of liability in this type of medical care and whether it could increase the need for doctor license defense. 

Direct-to-consumer medicine is increasing in popularity, but what happens if there is a problem? Can a doctor helping a patient online, through chats or video conferencing, be liable for issues such as misdiagnosis? A recent study that looked at medical malpractice cases filed in just one month in 2018 found that of the 551 cases, zero were related to telemedicine.

Vaccination requirements are a hot topic of conversation for California parents, schools, medical professionals and others. There is a new bill under consideration by state lawmakers that could bring some clarification to the issue. If passed, doctors could face increased scrutiny for allowing vaccination exemptions, which may lead to situations in which physicals may find it necessary to develop a doctor license defense.

California has one of the toughest vaccination records in the country. Children must be up-to-date on all vaccinations in order to attend public school. However, doctors may approve an exemption to this requirement on the basis of medical reasons. With the number of children with exemptions growing, some have concerns about how doctors are justifying them. If the proposed bill passes, all vaccination exemptions would be subject to review by the state health department.