The Florida Board of Medicine disciplined five Orlando area doctors this month for making serious medical errors. The doctors’ mistakes included operating on the wrong disc in a patient’s back, operating on the wrong testicle of a patient and implanting the wrong kind of lens during a cataract procedure. The doctors were order to pay fines up to $10,000, perform up to 100 hours of community service and take continuing education classes on topics such as risk management.

Unfortunately, tort reform favors the odds that most doctors will never be disciplined for their medical mistakes. Too often, the victims of medical negligence cannot hire lawyers to represent them in damage claims. And even though the Florida Board of Medicine meets regularly to take disciplinary action against doctors, it is ill-quipped to investigate the thousands of physician errors that occur each year, especially against well financed and insurance paid lawyers who can easily delay and defeat the process of state investigation.

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