I read recently that the left coast state of California is contemplating requiring physicians to submit to alcohol and drug testing. Citizens there will be voting on this proposal this November.I do think that the public is entitled to be treated by physicians who are unimpaired. Physicians, as members of the human species, have the same vices and frailties as the rest of us. Traveling leftward I have no objection to this new requirement, if it passes. This will not be a stand-alone proposal on the ballot, but is a part of the ballot initiative. Why would trial lawyers in the Golden State want to include it? The meat of their ballot effort is to reverse effective tort reform that had been in place there for several years. Click on the Legal Quality category on this blog for a fuller explanation of why the medical malpractice system has been screaming for reform, and is slowing getting it. Sure, there are always two or more sides to every issue. But, when the different
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