Ernsthausen, AJC
You may have never heard of the National Practitioner Data Bank, but there's a good chance your doctor has. It's the only national database that tracks professionally disciplined doctors across the country, ensuring that they can't hop from state-to-state to escape their troubled pasts.That unique role has also put the data bank in the crosshairs of physician advocacy groups, who have supported limits on public access to the database, as well as what gets reported to it in the first place.Now, the data bank may become an issue again with the nomination of Georgia Congressman Tom Price a...