Important Issues

MSDC and the physician community would like to thank the Committee on Health for marking up B25-545, the Health Occupations Revision General Amendment Act. We especially want to thank the Council members and staff for allowing us the opportunity to express concern with provisions in the original bill that would endanger patient safety and remove the physician from the center of the healthcare team. Even though we are pleased to see some changes, we will continue to work with the entire Council to ensure that the legislation removes persistent language that would place the District behind other states in terms of standards of care, affordability, efficiency and patient safety.

- Ashesh D. Patel, MD FACP