Medical Board says lack of money, authority ties hands and may attract subpar physicians to state
After the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board suspended Dr. Frank Salvi in 2009 for fondling four female patients, the Madison-area doctor won a circuit court ruling throwing out the sanction.Then, the medical board won an appeals court decision restoring it. Salvi failed to get the state Supreme Court to take the case. But he succeeded in making the medical board spend about $200,000 to fight him, said Dr. Sheldon Wasserman, board chairman. (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 1/29)
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