Congratulations! You have been appointed to a medical staff leadership position at your organization. You have had contact with the medical staff services department (MSSD) over the years, but on some level, you realize that you are not quite sure how the whole thing works. It is imperative that...
CRC members can peruse all of the online articles from the September 2018 issues of Credentialing REsource Center Journal and Medical Staff Briefing—as well as full-color PDFs—here:
Be caring and compassionate to all people. And work on communication and emotional intelligence—it’s more useful in the end than knowing every nerve in the body.
We began this series talking about “tribes.” As physicians, we belong to a very exclusive and circumscribed club of clinicians who inherently distrust anyone not a member of that tribe. In the hospital setting, this often plays out as “us” (the medical staff) versus “them” (the hospital...
A physician who recently gained attention for his offensive comments about the pay gap between male and female physicians has since stepped down from his leadership positions at Texas Health Plano. Texas Health confirmed that Gary Tigges, MD, an internal medicine physician at Plano Internal...
