[b]California[/b] could be come the first state in the US to require doctors to submit to random drug and alcohol tests under a measure to appear on the ballot this November. [s]The New York Times[/s] reports that the proposal, which drew approval in early focus groups, was inserted as a sweetener in a broad initiative pushed by trial lawyers that also includes an unrelated measure to raise the state’s financial cap on medical malpractice awards for the first time since 1975, to $1.1m from $250,000.
[link url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/02/us/california-asks-should-doctors-face-drug-tests.html?emc=edit_th_20140802&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=60640071&_r=1]Full report in The New York Times[/link]
California doctors face random drug and alcohol tests
