http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/03/local/la-me-medical-board3-2010feb03 In 2007, Dotson and a second physician, Josepha Seletz, of Eve Surgical Center, agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a mother of two, according to documents filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The family alleged that the woman, Oriane Shevin, was improperly given Mifepristone -- which is used for early pregnancy termination -- and did not receive proper follow-up care, the documents show. As a result, the family said in the court records, she acquired a fatal infection. In 2007, Rutland argued that he had been rehabilitated and won the board's permission to practice again under probation. Despite Dotson's history, the medical board appointed him to oversee Rutland, at Rutland's request. The board's violation of its own rules was first reported by William Heisel in his blog Antidote, carried on the Reporting on Health website, a project of the California Endowment. While under Dotson's watch last July, the board alleges Rutland botched an abortion at a San Gabriel clinic that left 30-year-old Ying Chen dead. The medical board said Chen had a toxic reaction to a drug Rutland administered. It accused him of being ill-equipped to treat her reaction and of failing to call for emergency back-up in time. The case is pending, and Rutland's attorney has said he is not at fault. Citing a "likelihood of injury to the public," an administrative law judge ordered Rutland last month to temporarily cease performing abortions, surgery and deliveries but stopped short of granting the board's request that his license be immediately suspended. After the judge's decision, a frequent medical board critic who was observing the proceedings checked into Dotson's past and complained to the board. "I was astonished that Dr. Dotson could be a Medical Board approved monitor, given his record of serious accusations . . . " Jeannette Dreisbach wrote in a Jan. 20 letter to the regulators. Julianne D'Angelo Fellmeth, director of the Center for Public Interest Law in San Diego and a former legislative auditor of the medical board, was surprised as well. "It's fairly astonishing that the medical board would approve of a physician as a practice monitor who has had similar disciplinary problems," she said.