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Deaths Of Mothers, Infants During Childbirth Prompt Calls To Revoke Bakersfield Doctor’s License

Following a string of patient injuries and deaths, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Bakersfield has been placed on probation. Dr. Arthur Park has been treating women and delivering babies in Bakersfield since 1988. In that time, he’s also been the defendant in at least 10 lawsuits alleging negligence, medical malpractice, or wrongful death, and he’s been associated with the deaths of at least two mothers and five newborns. In late June, following an investigation of three of those deaths—a mother who hemorrhaged shortly after delivering a baby girl, as well as a mother and son who both died after she succumbed to complications due to high blood pressure—the California Medical Board placed Park on probation . In the board’s decision, Interim Executive Director Christine Lally and Attorney General Xavier Becerra initially recommended revoking Park’s license, but stayed the revocation in favor of probation and a remedial ethics course . “I think it’s criminal that the medical board hasn’t
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