The Iowa Board of Medicine has dismissed disciplinary charges against a physician who argued Iowa’s “stand your ground” law protected him from sanctions for physically striking a handcuffed, combative patient. State records indicate Dr. Curtis Waite, who practices emergency medicine, was working in the emergency room at Mary Greeley Hospital in Ames the night of […]

A physician who worked 18 months at Iowa City’s Veterans Administration Medical Center has been denied a license to practice medicine in Iowa. Under federal regulations, doctors who aren’t licensed in a particular state can still work as physicians at federally operated care facilities, such as those run by the VA, within those same states. […]