During the past year the Board was also active on the policy front, releasing a major report on ten years of medical malpractice payments in Massachusetts, from 1994 to 2003. The Board also directed its Patient Care Assessment unit to monitor and oversee the implementation of the recommendations made in the Department of Public Health/Betsy Lehman Center report on weight loss surgery. The Board joined with the Division of Professional Licensure to alert the public about the dangers of so-called “Botox salons” where potentially dangerous medical procedures are performed by untrained individuals in inappropriate, non-medical.
