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Doctor claims discrimination from credentials committee, judge agrees

Credentialing Resource Center Connection, July 17, 2008

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A federal court judge found that a credentials committee’s order instructing a female physician to undergo a physical evaluation was discriminatory, according to a July 2 Boston Globe article. Sagun Tuli, MD, a neurosurgeon at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital in Boston claimed that the committee’s recommendation was based in part on continuous harassment from the chief of neurosurgery. The judge’s June 30 ruling overturned an earlier recommendation from a US magistrate judge.

Tuli’s lawyer said she was not aware of similar ruling overturning the decisions of credentials committees. “Courts are very unwilling to interfere in the peer-review process,” she told the Boston Globe, “but this is a very unique case.”

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