This issue of our newsletter is personal for me. More than 40 years ago, when I was a young medical reporter at the Miami Herald, I first encountered our nation's broken system of disciplining dangerous doctors and protecting patients.

It's still broken, I'm sorry to say.

And it's broken in the same ways and for a lot of the same reasons that existed in the 1970s when a team of reporters that I was part of published an award-winning series of articles called "dangerous doctors."