BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – A Kern County obstetrician has been ordered to temporarily stop practicing medicine for not upholding a condition of medical probation.
Dr. Hans Yu, an osteopathic physician with a practice in Bakersfield, has been treating women and delivering babies in the city since 2006. But last May, Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, which licenses doctors of osteopathic medicine, placed Yu’s medical license on probation after accusing him of gross negligence.
Then, earlier in January, the licensing board ordered him to cease practicing because he “failed to pass” a competency exam that was a required condition of probation. It’s unclear if he failed the exam or never took one within the required timeframe…