Wis. Doctors Reprimanded Over Protest Sick Notes « CBS Minnesota.
The Wisconsin Medical Examining Board has reprimanded the physicians, for giving out unjustified sick excuses for work absence , at the union protests in Madison Wisconsin.
An attorney representing some of the docs says that this reprimand will remain on their records for the rest of their careers. They are also being required to take continuing education in medical records keeping, and pay the costs of the board proceedings against them.
The Board found that the physicians did not keep proper records of having examined and found their patients ( fellow protesters) too ill to go to their jobs. This failure therefore violated the public trust placed in physicians, the board determined.
Nearly all of the physicians investigated for this infraction are affiliated with the University of Wisconsin. Seven of the doctors received their reprimands this past Wednesday. Six of those are part of a group of 22 docs who were investigated by the University of Wisconsin medical school for the fake sick notes. Some of those were found not to have handed out notes, and some were reprimanded or demoted.
