Friday, March 28, 2008 | 5:40 p.m.
The Associated Press reports out of Carson City, Nev. that on Friday Gov. Jim Gibbons stopped pushing for the resignations of three doctors from the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners.
Gibbons wanted Drs. Javaid Anwar, S. Daniel McBride and Sohail Anjum to step down from their positions on the board due to their ties to Dr. Dipak Desai, the majority owner of the Las Vegas clinic that was found to be practicing unsafe procedures that put thousands of patients at risk of contracting hepatitis C and HIV.
Now that the governor is no longer insisting the doctors step down, he plans to appoint three temporary board members to step in as the panel deals with issues involving the clinic.
A spokesman for Gibbons also said that the governor is no longer pushing for Tony Clark, the board's executive director, to resign but still thinks he should.
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