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rawpixel/PixabayThe Oregon Medical Board needs to do more to fairly and consistently discipline the health care professionals it regulates, a new Oregon Secretary of State audit found. -
Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/ambulance-architecture-building-business-263402/A group of emergency physicians and consumer advocates in multiple states, including California, are pushing for stiffer enforcement of decades-old statutes that prohibit the ownership of medical practices by corporations not owned by licensed doctors.
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