Doctors without borders.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

This kind of information has been notoriously hard to come by. A recent Washington Post series shows how nearly impossible it is to find out about incompetent physicians, and what a poor job medical societies do in disciplining them. Of course, this is one of those stories that reporters can do any year they have a little spare time. I know the problem has existed as long as I can remember. Indeed, stories about it have been done several times and noted in this column. But there is never the kind of follow-up that would hound medical societies to reform.

Remember, there is a Peters Solution to this problem. It would also take care of Medicare lawsuits. We...