The NC Medical Board held a public hearing on June 30 to receive input on its proposed rule related to physician profiles. The profiles will include medical malpractice information. The rules have been controversial because they propose to include all medical malpractice payments, even though the Board knows which payments are connected to poor medical care and could easily omit payments that might mislead the public. The proposal prompted dozens of speakers to attend the hearing and voice their concerns. NCMS has posted video of some of those speakers on YouTube, which you may view in clicps below, to give our members a sense of the commentary provided at the hearing. Videos can also be viewed by logging onto www.youtube.com and enter the search phrase “NC Physician Profiles”. We did not post video of all speakers supporting the NCMS position, but those that were omitted were equally compelling. Please send your feedback on this testimony to NCMS general counsel Stephen Keene at skeene@ncmedsoc.org.
Speaker: Hadley Callaway, MD, President of the North Carolina Medical Society
Speaker: Bill Bowman, MD, NC Medical Society Past President
Speaker: Zane Walsh, MD, NC Medical Society Past President
Speaker: Elizabeth Kanof, MD, NCMS Past President, former NC Medical Board member
Speaker: Melanie Phelps, JD, Associate General Counsel on Health Policy, NC Medical Society
Speaker: Jim Cooney, JD, NC Association of Defense Attorneys
Speaker: Jerry Allen, JD, Defense Attorney, Goldsboro
Speaker: David Sousa, JD, Medical Mutual Insurance Company
Speaker: Sammy Thompson, JD, MAG Mutual Insurance Company
Speaker: Carson Rounds, MD, Past President, NC Academy of Family Physicians
Speaker: Elmira Powell, PA-C, NC Academy of Physician Assistants
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