Why should a medical staff establish methods for addressing conflicts of interest? It’s not as if turf wars can break out among specialists within the same medical staff. And no financial conflicts ever occur between a hospital and the physicians who practice there. And surely no personal...
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.
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It’s a mild April morning. Dr. Smith, an accomplished surgeon, and Bill Loney, an affable—if absent-minded—general surgery practice manager, walk briskly down the halls of St. Elsewhere Medical Center, a far-off, yet somehow familiar, facility where Dr. Smith was recently hired. They pause...