Gaitan Morales Blog House subcommittee passes bill authorizing the Surgeon General to restrict the license of doctors who over-prescribe narcotics

January 17, 2012. Today, the House Health & Human Services Quality Subcommittee passed a bill aimed at giving the Surgeon General more power to stop doctors who over-prescribe narcotics, but only after a rewrite removing the word "suspension" - a compromise worked out between the Florida Medical Association and Department of Health. Under the rewritten version of [...]