Series: Corruption in The Maryland Board of Physicians and The Maryland Health Department Maryland’s Health Department Corrupt then and now Article One Doctor Lois Leonard By Mark Davis, MD Journalist, Author, Media Consultant Decades may pass yet corrupt government entities linger. Unaccountable to no one their appointed soldiers march through time with the venomous bite of institutionalized authority destroying the very framework they are supposed to oversee. One such designee was Doctor Lois Leonard. Her horrific death from cancer in 1993 does not excuse her of actions in which she was involved several years earlier. Doctor Leonard was empowered to cite nursing homes for inadequacies in nursing and physician care by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (now the Maryland Health Department). No medical or surgical case was too complex for Doctor Leonard to cr...