This means, he said, that thousands of such cases are never brought to the attention of the board, whose job it is to weed out incompetent physicians.

There is already in place a system that is intended to disqualify incompetent physicians from treating Medicare patients.

Really, Aillard, you must not go imagining schemes and plots everywhere, simply because you have an incompetent physician.

Our legal system has made it virtually impossible to dismiss an incompetent physician from a hospital staff.

Although the nation's system for protecting the public from incompetent physicians has "vastly improved" in the last 15 years, the group said, it is still inadequate.

Contrary to your assertions, Canada has pulled its weight (per capita) in medical research and surpasses us in efforts to weed out incompetent physicians.

I will not be treated by any of your incompetent human physicians!

Now meritorious cases against incompetent physicians are rejected because lawyers and clients cannot afford the expenses involved in litigating these matters.

The doctors who sit on hospital peer review committees and allow incompetent physicians to continue practicing at their institutions?

Supporters say these safeguards would insure that no incompetent physicians are licensed.