Floyd Arthur - California Fails to Raise Medical Malpractice Cap by Floyd Arthurhttp://carmoongroup.comMedical Malpractice and Prescribing PracticesThe final portion of the failed proposal should have been the least controversial – a provision mandating that doctors check the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES) database before prescribing controlled substances. The database was established in 2009 – a joint effort between the U.S. Department of Justice and the state. However, participation in the system, which is available to both prescribers and pharmacies and is meant to alert them when patients are filling multiple prescriptions for controlled substances, is voluntary, and utilization has been low.Making use of the already existing database mandatory, proponents argued, could in theory prevent the kind of overprescribing of dangerous medicines that led to David Pack’s children’s deaths.Nonetheless, opponents of Prop. 46, funded an ad campaign against the use of CURES, calling it “vulnerable to hackers,” and warning Californians that their personal medical information could be subject to unwanted scrutiny if the proposition passed. (The ads ignored the fact that CURES had been existence for 6 years and had never been hacked.)Despite the failure of the law, David Pack and other proponents of Prop. 46 have vowed to bring a similar measure back to the voters next year.Floyd Arthur #floydarthurhttp://floydarthur.info
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