In researching this story, Deseret Morning News reporters Elaine Jarvik and Lois Collins attended licensing board meetings and consulted patients, doctors, malpractice attorneys and five years' worth of the quarterly online newsletters that the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing publishes about disciplined health practitioners. This story includes names of some who illustrate gaps in what patients can know about their doctors, but readers should not assume those named here are "bad" doctors, or that the doctors not named here are "good."

Doctors named in this story have been given a chance to tell their story. Many accepted; some declined.