Bad Faith Healing?

California Medical Board Suspends Internet Doc’s License: “Jon Opsahl, M.D. will appear before a California administrative law judge July 25 in a hearing about alleged violations of a state law that requires physicians to perform a “good faith” examination before prescribing certain medications for patients, reports The Sacramento Bee. Opsahl allegedly wrote more than 8,000 prescriptions for antidepressants and painkillers over the course of a year for patients that he had spoken with on the phone rather than seen in person. The Bee reports that the complaint against Opsahl charges he received $60 for each of the phone consultations, which were referred to him by a now-closed Texas-based Web site.” Today in E-Health Business