Topic: Louis Ling

CARSON CITY Gov. Jim Gibbons has agreed that a member of the Board of Medical Examiners should resign for leaking an internal board memo to the Las Vegas Sun.Jean Stoess was asked to step down last week by Board Chairman Dr ...
And the governor, as usual, is not only confused, but by his actions has confused the situation even more.There is a whole lot of confusion goin on, with fingers pointed at everyone involved, including the Fourth Estate (cest moi) for daring ...

THE SLUGGISH PACE OF MEDICAL REGULATION

Doctors keep licenses weeks after unsafe practices documented Three weeks ago, state medical authorities ordered Dr. Sean Su of Las Vegas to stop performing surgeries in his clinic after investigators called in because he allegedly harmed a patient discovered gross violations of ...

Nevada medical board seeks to update discipline, licensing systems

The Nevada Board of Medical Examiners is proposing legislation to increase transparency and efficiency, and include patients in the disciplinary process.. "Right now, the public doesn't get any of that information," said Louis Ling, the board's chief executive. Ling proposed ...

Remedy for a closed process

Medical board chief pitches plan to give patients a voice in discipline cases RenoWhen Louis Ling took administrative charge of the states medical board in September, he fretted that the process of investigating doctors and disciplining the bad ones could take two ...

E-Prescribing is Popular Among Doctors in Nevada

Nevada doctors apparently have been quick to catch on to electronic prescribing, according to a state official and a medical coalition that recently gave the state a Safe-Rx Award.The state placed No. 3 in the 2007 rankings done by the National ...