Walk Up Reference Question of the Day

The patron had a 2-part question.

1. Is there a way of finding out what physicians are guilty of not paying their bills.

-My thought on this that this is a private matter and would not be in the open literature. The only possibility would be if a supplier wrote on a blog that a physician owed him money.

2. Is there a way I could find out if a physician had been sued for medical malpractice.

-I found this source in the catalog of the UMDNJ Library:

Title:
Questionable doctors disciplined by states or the federal government.
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Public Citizen Health Research Group, c1990-

-My second thought was to search the Lexis-Nexis database using the terms medical malpractice and urology and limiting it to New Jersey cases.

The patron could not find the physician in question, but it was possible that there could be a malpractice lawsuit with the doctor under investigation that was settled out of court and did not get into Lexis-Nexis.