Letters: No leniency for this doctor

Re “Probation in Lap-Band patient death,� Business, Aug. 14

I am opposed to applying an automatic three-strikes punishment for all transgressions. But anesthesiologist Daniel Shin deserves one. In 2007, he was convicted of assaulting someone with a meat cleaver. In 2009, a woman he was treating died, and Shin was disciplined by the California Medical Board but continued to practice. And most recently, a Lap-Band patient under his care in 2010 died; the medical board accused him of “gross negligence.�

Shin’s medical license is not worth saving.

Would any member of the medical board be willing to have Shin as a physician? Can we replace our board with New York’s, which revoked Shin’s license to practice in that state?

Harry Shragg, MD

Reseda

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