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Weekly Roundup | Featured content: The increasing prevalence of overlapping surgery | Bradley T. Truax, MD, principal consultant of the Truax Group, is board-certified in both neurology and internal medicine and has been involved in patient safety for more than 25 years. He says there are no clear estimates on the prevalence of overlapping surgeries (OS). What is clear, though, is the wide variation in OS rates by hospital and by department. Some hospitals have reported OS rates over 70% in some departments, especially in orthopedics, neurosurgery, and otolaryngology. |
Leadership insight: Physician resigns from leadership roles after disparaging remarks | 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 Medicine Associates, resigned from his position as member of the executive committee Texas Health Plano’s medical board of and as chair of the credentialing committee earlier this month. |
Quick tip: Addressing ED call in your bylaws | Q: Should we specify in our bylaws that only active staff members will take call? Michael R. Callahan, JD, senior partner in the Health Care Practice Group Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Chicago, Illinois: EMTALA requires that hospitals provide ED services in all areas and services for which they provide patient services. If you provide neurosurgery, you have to have neurosurgeons on call. You have to match up your call schedule with the services that you provide. |
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New Content: Members Only | Taking the physician executive track, Part 5: Boulders and barriers | Published 9/19/18 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 administration). But you have been smitten by the possibility of a world beyond clinical medicine, and you feel as though you’re on the cusp of something new. You might think you’re imagining it, but as you move forward on this journey to a physician executive role, the chorus of comments from your clinical colleagues will likely seem to increase in frequency and intensity. |
District court: Republication doctrine applies to NPDB queries | Published 9/17/18 The United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee Western Division (the “Court”) denied a hospital’s motion to dismiss a plaintiff’s claim, finding that the state Supreme Court would find that the republication doctrine applies to hospital queries of the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), not the statewide standard single-publication rule. |
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