Tina Minasian urges the California State Senate to reconsider AB 408, a bill permitting a treatment program for doctors with substance disorders. Having unknowingly been operated on by a surgeon in such a program, Minasian advocates for patient safety before the Senate votes. Despite addressing prevalent issues among physicians, including high rates of substance abuse and suicide, the bill raises concerns about the potential risks to patients. Currently, California lacks such diversion programs, with past implementations having supported hundreds of doctors annually before being discontinued in 2008.
Imagine if it was your mother, father, brother, sister, daughter, son or grandchild: would you want them to be operated on by a doctor in a secret [treatment] program?
The unfortunate reality is that there are physicians practicing today who are unsafe, and we don't find out about them until we receive a complaint or we read about their arrest in the news.
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