Medical staff policies that require practitioners to sign releases before they disclose information to a requesting hospital are designed to protect an institution against lawsuits. But in the case of disclosing a practitioner’s...
Many primary care physicians have decreased their hospital activity and instead focus on their ambulatory-based community practice. Financial factors and lifestyle choices are often behind such changes to a physician's practice. Although these physicians' ties to the hospital are weakened, many...
Constant advances in medical research, technology, education, and consumer demand for healthcare organizations to offer new and innovative procedures have increased dramatically in the past several years-a trend that isn't likely to end anytime soon! As a result, the medical executive committee...
