CHICAGO MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ATTORNEY COMMENTS ON THE PATIENTS' RIGHT TO KNOW ACT
Illinois residents can now find out more about the doctors who treat them. In fact, patients have access to some pretty significant background information on doctors, including whether they have ever been fired, convicted of a crime or submitted a malpractice payment anytime in the last five years. As Chicago medical malpractice attorneys, we applaud Governor Pat Quinn for signing the Patients' Right to Know Act, which provides patients the right to investigate the doctors who treat them. According to the Chicago Tribune, doctors have lobbied against the Act for over ten years, but thanks to a Tribune special report, which found "state regulators allowed dangerous doctors, even those convicted of sex crimes, to continue practicing," the Act was finally signed into law.
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) will have two months to gather and post doctor information on its website, http://idfpr.com/. Doctors must inform IDFPR if they are convicted of Class A misdemeanors or felonies. However, another law will soon "require prosecutors to inform the state agency when physicians are convicted of sex crimes, forcible felonies and misdemeanor batteries against patients."
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