In March 2001 the American Journal of Psychiatry identified some of their problems.
Psychiatrists Disciplined by a State Medical Board
James Morrison, M.D., and Theodore Morrison, M.P.H.In the full report's body (free at the above link)
OBJECTIVE: This study determined the risk of discipline by a medical board for psychiatrists relative to other physicians and assessed the contributions to such risk. METHOD: Physicians disciplined by the California Medical Board in a 30-month period were compared with matched groups of nondisciplined physicians. RESULTS: Among 584 disciplined physicians, there were 75 (12.8%) psychiatrists, nearly twice the number of psychiatrists among nondisciplined physicians.
The disciplined group included significantly more psychiatrists who claimed child psychiatry as their first or second specialty and significantly fewer psychoanalysts. CONCLUSIONS: Organized psychiatry has an *obligation to address sexual contact with patients and other causes for medical board discipline.
Dehlendorf and Wolfe (7) reported that child specialists were disciplined for sex-related offenses to about the same extent as were other psychiatrists, whereas in our study they were nearly three times more at risk.California's Physician Diversion Program Was (wallpaper) Addressing the problem, ..... with 12 Doctors and 9 non Doctors on the Board. The Cal Diversion Program folded its tents, and snuck off into the night, last summer (at least it Promised it was going to)
...... because Half of the Drunks, Dopers and Perverts it was Supposed to be Diverting from Prosecution and Incarceration couldn't even Bother to Show Up.
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