my two cent worth

• Boards are particularly light on doctors who have committed insurance fraud and who have been involved in crimes related to drugs, including prescribing violations and substance abuse

My opinion

I think that the Boards are being biased here.A crime committed is a crime committed no matter what is the occupation of the offender. Punishments should be meted out according to the law and not give any leeways to the offender just because one is a doctor. If the board continue s to dish out lighter sentences to offenders who are doctors, I think it will be threatening the integrity of their law system.

Furthermore, not only will the citizen lose faith in the system, they may end up being the victims as the sentence meted out to the doctor offenders may not be sufficiently impactful to make them repent. In addition, it is not easy to find out if disciplinary action is taken out on the doctor as in many cases, the patients do not know if the doctor holds any criminal records.

In any case, doctors ought to be role models as most are highly respected and not commit crimes and tarnished the good reputation of doctors. Boards should also be impartial and lashed out appropiate punishments accoreding to the law.

posted by nutty-me @ 2:49 PM