Sen. Curren Price (D-Los Angeles) and Assemblyman Richard Gordon (D-Menlo Park) co-authored the proposal. It follows recent backlash against the medical board, including a Los Angeles Times investigative report about physicians who continued practicing despite having prescribed drugs to multiple patients who fatally overdosed.
Under the proposal, the medical board would mostly deal with licensing physicians. Assemblyman Gordon said shifting investigative responsibilities away from the medical board and to another agency would “provide far greater assurance to the public that the medical profession is being regulated in California,” according to the report.
A spokesperson for Attorney General Kamala Harris said the attorney general was still evaluating the proposal. Medical board President Sharon Levine said she had been anticipating the change but could not comment before the full board discussed the matter, according to the report.
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