Mission
The mission of the Medical Board of California is to protect health care consumers through the proper licensing and regulation of physicians and surgeons and certain allied health care professionals and through the vigorous, objective enforcement of the Medical Practice Act, and to promote access to quality medical care through the Board's licensing and regulatory functions
Regulatory bodies need regulation themselves. There is no means to calibrate and/or suppress some knee jerk regulations that are obsolete, premature, or just outright ill conceived.
Take telehealth for instance. Prior to 2020 the use of telehealth was suppressed by Medicare and payors because they posited it would drive up the cost of healthcare and also lead to a decrease in quality of care. This decision was a subjective decision and without merit as there were no pilot studies to disprove their theory. One year later telehealth was in full swing due to the overwhelming COVID 19 pandemic. Telehealth became the first line of defense by reducing exposure and transmissibility of COVID19, It's rapid acceptance was not so much about an objective decision, but by government edict, Medicare and Private health plans following suit. Medical boards had to back pedal quickly to prevent the healthcare system from self destructing
Two years later, after the Pandemic peaked telehealth was in use, accepted by the majority of physicians and patients.
In a parallel world Medical Boards attempted to regulate free speach by censoring physicians posts and others about vaccinations. treatments and side effects of the virus and the vaccines. Some physicians were threatened and had their medical licenses suspended without due process. The medical landscape, research and studies were fluid with recommendations changing monthly and at times weekly,
California Assembly Bill 2098 (AB 2098), signed into law on Sept. 30, subjects the state’s doctors to discipline — including the suspension of their medical licenses — for sharing “misinformation” or “disinformation” about COVID-19 with their patients.
According to the motion:
“AB 2098 prohibits physicians from conveying information and advice to their patients about COVID-19, which the State of California believes to be inconsistent with the prevailing opinions of the U.S. public health authorities and the majority of the medical community.
“However, if the pandemic has taught the world anything, it teaches that the views and edicts of the U.S. public health and medical authorities have changed, sometimes quickly, dramatically, and often inconsistently.”
The law is set to take effect Jan. 1, 2023. A hearing on the motion is scheduled for Jan. 17, 2023.
Clearly misinformation and information can rapidly be interchanged.
The dust has not yet settled. Vaccines are changing as fast as the virus is mutating.
The President, CDC, and NIH rendered conflicting opinions on masking, vaccinations, distancing as well as risk factors for vaccinations. Several authorities on infectious diseases became celebrities overnite on some television news productions Anthony Fauci, MD (a well known and previously respected physician scientist) rolled his eyes up when President Trump made some outlandish statements about hydroxychloroquine tablets to prevent or treat Covid 19.
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