93 VA Doctors Have License Problems; 4 Fired, Agency Says
The Veterans Administration said today that it found 93 doctors on its payroll who had been disciplined by state medical regulatory boards, including 24 whose licenses had been suspended or revoked.
Four of them have been fired, the agency said. It employs 47,000 doctors full or part time.
The VA said it was unaware of many of the disciplinary actions because it lacked internal controls to identify doctors with impaired licenses.
The agency said its department of medicine and surgery has adopted policies that will allow it to more readily identify doctors who have had problems with their medical practices before joining the VA.
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