Many of the bills that move through the General Assembly are quite routine, so when a legislator from York County — Democrat Mark Downey, the only physician in the legislature — rose last week to talk about a “clean-up bill” relating to the Board of Medicine, it didn’t seem like a big deal.
Del. Wren Williams, R-Patrick County, saw it otherwise.
Downey’s bill, HB 1139, would remove the requirement that the Board of Medicine have at least one practicing physician from each of the state’s 11 congressional districts…