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Rule for MDs  January 12, 1985|PAUL JACOBS | Times Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO — California doctors would no longer be required to
prove their ability to perform life-saving cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR) under a proposal being considered by the
state board that licenses physicians.  The Board of Medical
Quality Assurance wants to drop its five-year-old CPR
requirement and will hold a hearing on the issue Jan. 25.  The
board's licensing division argues that the rule was an example
of unnecessary government regulation and that most physicians
are already required to learn the emergency technique by the
hospitals where they practice.  "If they (physicians) need to
know it, they do," said the board's assistant executive
director, Stephen Wilford. "If they don't, then requiring one
test every two years isn't going to give it to them."  In fact,
the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, a nationally
recognized nonprofit group that sets hos