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Florida’s medical marijuana program is attracting troubled doctors: ‘It’s like the Wild Wild West’

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Florida’s medical marijuana program is attracting troubled doctors: ‘It’s like the Wild Wild West’ [1]
Article Date: 
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

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  • PotDocs [2]
  • Florida [3]
  • Malpractice [4]

"Marijuana doctors were 2.8 times as likely as other doctors to have been disciplined by the Board of Medicine, and 2.4 times as likely to have been charged with a crime. Altogether, 108 of them were responsible for $69.4 million in malpractice judgments and settlements, some for maiming or killing patients. Some of the doctors have been fined, suspended or stripped of their licenses in other states. They’ve misdiagnosed conditions, falsified records and written prescriptions for people they never saw. They’ve been jailed for domestic violence. A few have sexually abused patients, including those as young as 14 and 16."

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[1] http://www.tampabay.com/investigations/2018/05/04/floridas-medical-marijuana-program-is-attracting-troubled-doctors-its-like-the-wild-wild-west/
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[4] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/malpractice