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The Associated Press reports out of Carson City, Nev. that on Friday Gov. Jim Gibbons stopped pushing for the resignations of three doctors from the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners. Gibbons wanted Drs. Javaid Anwar, S. Daniel McBride and Sohail Anjum to step down from their positions on the board due to their ties to Dr. Dipak Desai, the majority owner of the Las Vegas clinic that was found to be practicing unsafe procedures that put thousands of patients at risk of contracting hepatitis C and HIV. Now that the governor is no longer insisting the doctors step down, he plans to appoint three temporary board members to step in as the panel deals with issues involving the clinic. A spokesman for Gibbons also said that the governor is no longer pushing for Tony Clark, the board's executive director, to resign but still thinks he should.
Governor no longer after medical board resignations
(via Inside Bay Area) · March 28, 2008 · 5:40 PM
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A fish named Gibbons...flip...flop.
What the hell kind of story is this. No quotes, no reasons, ( other that what Beezie accurately describes).
The only cuts this state needs to make is the removal from office of this incredible inept, embarrassing and idiotic person who somehow managed to garner enough votes to become the...
Did you see where this article originated? SF Bay Area. Click on the link at the top where it says via Bay Area and the story is a little more detailed, nothing new, just more detailed. I just find it interesting it came from there from the Associated Press. I'd like to know how Gibbons is going to decide who the temporary members are since he can't seem to make a decision at all.
The Nevada Medical Board members should resign, not only because their ties to Desai have rendered them unable to address the state's health crisis, but because their history of incompetence has earned the Board its current ranking as one of the 5 worst medical boards in the country. Gibbons' latest reversal makes it even more clear that the legislature must step in to fix the Board's glaring inability to protect public safety. To learn more about the toll of death and injury brought about by the Board's long-term failure to discipline dangerous doctors, vist http://faculty.uml.edu/sgallagher/NSBME.... , an academic web page on the astonishing level of medical misconduct in NV.
Ok,susanekg, enough already with your ad nauseum self-promotion of your website. Does it help you obtain tenure at your university? Pay attention to your own board in Massachusetts, which is also made up of physicians or other boards across the country, all of which are made up of physicians. Physician applicants in other states (including Mass) are only required to have 1 year postgrad training; physicians in Nevada are required to have a minimum of 3 years. There are some good docs here. No one is saying the system is perfect, far from it, but this problem is nationwide and while you are certainly more than eager to constantly promote your own website on Nevada's failures, I have yet to see you come up with a solution. It's easy to assign blame, especially when apparently you do not reside here.
So these 3 "important" board members because of their conflict of interest will not...CAN NOT...be involved with the MOST important health crisis in the HISTORY of Nevada.
Yea....they should not resign.....because they are going to have all this free time to take extra naps.
Yes they should resign because they are totally useless empty suits. The state needs three full time board members to deal with this issue.