The disruptive physician: handle with care
Hollowell, E.E.
Trustee the Journal for Hospital Governing Boards 31(6): 11-13; 15, 17
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-3674 PMID: 10307838 Document Number: 137398
The courts are beginning to recognize what hospital medical staffs and governing boards have known all along--that a physician's personality can affect the quality of the care that he delivers. Although disruptive conduct often is difficult to prove, the courts have been willing to accept the decisions of hospital governing boards to deny or terminate staff privileges of disruptive physicians if proper procedures are followed and reasonable evidence is produced.