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Mass. medical board drops in state rankings

Email|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Gideon Gil April 22, 2008 05:53 PM

The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine dropped 12 places in a consumer group's annual rankings of state medical boards.

In a report released today, Public Citizen, a Washington-based group founded by consumer advocate Ralph Nader, said that nationwide, the rate of serious disciplinary actions against doctors dropped in 2007 for the third consecutive year, from 3.72 per 1,000 physicians in 2004 to 2.92 last year.

Massachusetts is one of 11 states that have fallen at least 10 places in the group's state-by-state rankings in a four-year period. Massachusetts ranked 23rd in 2001-03, and dropped to 35th in the 2005-07 rankings.

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Elizabeth Cooney covers health for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. She previously reported on business and was an editor at the paper. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.