We’re just starting our research on this book, and I’ll be posting links and other stuff that you, dear patient, might find interesting or helpful as we go along. Here’s the first tidbit (if you live in Texas anyway).

The Texas Medical Board keeps a fairly thorough record of disciplinary actions it takes against the doctors of our state. Here’s where you can find those records online. Click the “look up a licensee” link to find your doctor’s record. If, like we did, you want to see the records of all doctors in a particular city, just type in that city’s name in the form and hit return. (In otherwords, don’t worry about the other blanks.)

We found more than 1,000 records for doctors in Corpus Christi, and, at first glance, it seems as if the vast majority have never been disciplined. Sometime before the end of April, though, we plan to click through each of those records and give you a report in this blog.

Also, we’re going to make it a weekly practice to check the Recent Disciplinary Actions link and read about the latest doctors in trouble. We intend to follow media coverage of all the cases listed and give you a quarterly report of which media outlets are doing a good job of helping patients know what’s wrong with their doctors.

Also, for folks who don’t live in Texas, we’ll be checking on what all the other states do to give you easy access to similar information about doctors in your state. Check back for more on that, and, if you know of some good links in that regard, please feel free to post them in the comments section below.