Oversight of doctors improves in Delaware

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Oversight of doctors improves.

Major reforms inspired by Earl Bradley case are having the desired effect.

In the wake of the failure of medical and law-enforcement officials to stop

pediatrician Earl B. Bradley from sexually abusing girls he treated, lawmakers

last year enacted a slew of laws aimed at cracking down on incompetent doctors

and those who fail to report wrongdoing.

Many wondered whether those reforms would make a difference.

The early answer is that disciplinary actions against Delaware doctors have

increased dramatically since the first revelations in January 2010 that Bradley

had raped or molested more than 100 child patients and that complaints over a

15-year period about his inappropriate touching of girls never led to discipline

or his arrest...

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