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Medical board probes: first of all--call a lawyer.(Practice Trends)
PASADENA, CALIF. -- Your state medical board requests medical and billing records from your office.
You are advised to appear for an interview with state medical board representatives.
Investigators from the state medical board show up in your waiting room and demand to inspect your office.
What should you do? In all three instances, the answer is the same.
"Call a lawyer," advised Peter R. Osinoff, a Los Angeles lawyer who specializes in defending physicians in medical malpractice cases and before the Medical Board of California.
Physicians who believe they've done nothing wrong often think they will have no problem dealing with questions from medical board investigators. But legal representation is critical, even for preliminary investigations that may be prompted by a call from a mentally imbalanced patient or a former staff member with an axe to grind, Mr. Osinoff asserted at the annual meeting of the Obstetrical and Gynecological Assembly of Southern California.
The physician who is thinking, "There really is nothing to this case!" may very well be right, said Mr. Osinoff. However, going it alone "is like walking into the police station as the prime suspect in a case. You would never think of doing that without a lawyer by your side, well prepared," he said.
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