{"id":32477,"date":"2009-10-23T10:05:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T10:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/doctors_convicted_of_felonies\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T15:56:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T20:56:29","slug":"doctors-convicted-of-felonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/doctors-convicted-of-felonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Convicted Of Felonies Still Paid By Taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors who have committed crimes are still being paid by taxpayers for doing  work for the Food and Drug Administration according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.  This work ranges from conducting research for the agency or overseeing the safety of patients in clinical trials.  The report  takes the FDA to task for slowness in debarring ,( disqualifying ), health professionals who have been convicted of crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA has the authority to debar doctors from overseeing the safety of patients in clinical trials if those health professional flout federal regulations.  It is required to disqualify doctors who are convicted of fraud or other crimes. However, it takes the agency an average of four years to disqualify a doctor according to a report  issued by the independent Government Accountability Office.<\/p>\n<p>In one instance, according to the article,  it took the FDA 11 years to debar a doctor who had been convicted of 53 counts of criminal offenses including  bribing an employee to conceal information about the attempted suicide of a clinical-trial patient and prescribing a drug without a license.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/doctors-convicted-of-felonies\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Doctors Convicted Of Felonies Still Paid By Taxpayers\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors who have committed crimes are still being paid by taxpayers for doing work for the Food and Drug Administration according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. 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