By September, the Texas Medical Board will require fingerprints of new applicants and physicians with disciplinary problems. The medical board currently relies on criminal background checks to prevent inadvertent licensing, but is changing its approach after a news program discovered that a registered sex offender was twice named "Doctor of the Day" by the Texas legislature. Also, the Texas Department of Public Safety found that 5,000 of 120,000 applicants for education-related positions had used an alias to conceal criminal records. Read more.
