Avoid negligent credentialing of nonphysician practitioners

The number of nonphysician practitioners applying for privileges at hospitals today is growing rapidly. In some places, the applications from nonphysicians regularly outpace those from doctors. Fashioning a dedicated committee (or subcommittee) to evaluate the credentials of nonphysician practitioners allows multiple initial review committees to share the workload of assessing applications.

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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (the “Court”) dismissed a physician’s claims of breach of contract and defamation based on the reference letter he received from the residency program.

The plaintiff in the case, Jeffrey Weisman, MD, filed his claim against Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH), Washington University, and other defendants after he resigned from his residency program and didn’t receive the positive program director reference letter that he believed he was promised.

Addiction medicine focuses on the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery of patients of all ages with the disease of addiction, substance-related disorders, and associated health conditions. Physicians in this subspecialty of preventive medicine also help family members whose health and functioning are affected by
a loved one’s substance use or addiction.

Airlines and aviation have often been held up as standards for safety, but can what they do apply to hospitals, clinics, labs, and other healthcare organizations? Every day, the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Air Traffic Organization (ATO) provides service to more than 45,000 flights and 2.9 million airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. Despite this, there were only 1,157 airplane accidents for the entire year of 2021, in which only 221 people were seriously injured.