Illinois Physician Disciplinary Database Is Revived

"The Illinois Patient Right to Know Act is testament that some ideas are so responsible, even the monied forces of entrenched self-interest can’t defeat them.

 State Rep. Mary Flowers (D-Chicago) has worked for 10 years to guarantee that Illinois patients can find out if their doctor is good or bad, based on work history.

 She accomplished her goal, a state website with such information, only to see it removed after two years because of an Illinois Supreme Court ruling.

 Gov. Pat Quinn signed a revised bill into law this month and pronounced it the best customer rights bill the Legislature passed this year.

 He’s right about that.

 The centerpiece of the law is a computer database, first launched in 2008, that provides a physician’s disciplinary history, practice specialties, insurance information, hospital affiliations and, perhaps most importantly, a list of malpractice judgments or settlements involving the doctor during the previous five years. The state’s roughly 48,000 physicians and chiropractors will all be listed when the site returns in a couple of months."
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