Bangladesh, Dec. 18 -- A new investigation has exposed a deep and dangerous flaw at the heart of Europes system for regulating doctors: national health authorities across the continent are routinely ignoring official warnings about physicians who have been banned elsewhere. The result is a fragmented oversight regime that allows doctors disciplined for serious misconduct – including actions that directly harm patients – to quietly cross borders and continue practicing.

At the center of the problem is the European Unions Internal Market Information System (IMI), a digital platform designed to facilitate cooperation between authorities in the EUs single market, as well as associated countries like Norway and Iceland. Under EU r...