The Court of Appeal for the Second District of California (the “Court”) affirmed a Superior Court of Los Angeles County decision to dismiss a physician’s suit against a hospital for summarily suspending his medical staff privileges pending a peer review.
The medical staff services profession is on the move, according to more than 600 early responses to HCPro’s 2017 MSP Salary Survey, which closes later this month.
“Physicians have more control over our lifestyles than we believe. We may feel stuck, trapped in situations we don’t like, but in truth, most of us have the financial and emotional resources to change our lives into something better.”
To address the shortage of physicians in Missouri, a recently passed bill would ease the qualifications for medical school graduates to practice in the state. The bill, which is awaiting the governor’s signature, would allow medical school graduates to apply for assistant physician licenses.
Essentially, assessing competence in the ambulatory setting does not differ from the processes used in the acute care setting. The same requirements and expectations are applied to the ambulatory setting as well. It does not matter what terms the medical staff and organization use to describe...
