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Medical board says it is not responsible for 'daily deal marketing cease and desist' letters sent to physicians

The Medical Board of California issued a statement last week that it did not author a letter apparently coming from its  Discipline Coordination Unit warning physicians to immediately "cease and desist " from conducting any daily deal marketing arrangements with sites such as Groupon, Living Social  and Amazon. A number of California physicians have called the medical board stating that they have received these letters dated November 6, 2013, on the medical board’s masthead.   These letters are fraudulent and were not generated by the medical board. When the medical board ...