Ten years ago I saw Dr. Carney. He said he saw a spot on my nose and wanted to remove it. I said I had an upcoming wedding anniversary and did not want him to do anything that would look bad for pictures. He scraped the spot, which resulted in me having a scab on my nose and resulted in a scar that I still have ten years later.

I went to Dr. Carney once about 10 years ago. Never again. He removed a cyst on my forehead and the next day it swelled like a melon. Couldn't track him down to look at it. Ended up going to my GP for treatment.

@DeeBMN Hopefully he won't change his name to Dr. Khat Balou and try to practice again.

The fourth paragraph implies Carney's discipline was the result of a StarTribune investigation. Was it?

I used to see Dr Carney. He was great. Then he was voted one of the top doctors for a few years by a local magazine, and it was impossible to get in to see him with less than a 3 month notice. He opened Skin Speaks and hired some really good people to work there. Then it becamse more about the money and less about results, and the good people left. I went to his practice about two years ago for a skin infection and had to see someone else in the practice. She gave me a drug I was alergic to that was ON my list of allergies. I won't be back.

DeeBMN what if that spot was melanoma? An early diagnosis would have saved your life! He scraped it to test for cancer, vanity aside, he was doing what he was suppose to do. Be grateful instead of angry!

Now we need an agency to protect patients from the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice. A case of the fox watching the hen house.

And people wonder why medical costs are so high! You have the doctor's union supervising the doctors. Instead of weeding out the bad ones they do everything they can to keep them in business, run up the malpractice claims as well as their premiums and pass the cost AND THE MISERY on to the public. He should have been drummed out after the first $1 million judgement.

"...Gov. Mark Dayton later signed into law provisions requiring the board, which regulates Minnesota’s 20,000 physicians, to provide more information about malpractice judgments and disciplinary actions taken against doctors by other states. The law also requires the board to address consumer complaints in a timely fashion." Thank you Gov. Dayton for trying to bring some sanity into the healthcare problem. Can you imagine where healthcare costs would be had we not been subsidizing medical incompetence?

There is an obvious reason why Minnesota ranks at the bottom of the pole when it comes to taking action against a physician. As long as the "good old boys" club is allowed to operate more and more Minnesotans are going to be harmed. As it stands right now...any doctor could have had twenty-five malpractice settlements and never have to inform the board...it's voluntary.