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Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, June 1, 2009

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If you’re not in contact with your internal legal counsel on a regular basis, pick up the phone or send him or her an e-mail today. A strong relationship between the medical staff and hospital counsel can be one of your ?organization’s strongest risk management tools, says ?Annemarie Martin-Boyan, senior counsel at Temple University Health System in Philadelphia.
“No legal department ever wants to have to say, ‘If we had been able to give you counsel on the front end, we could have avoided this problem,’ ” Martin-Boyan says.
The problem is that in some institutions, members of the medical staff may view legal counsel as the voice of the administration rather than a resource for the entire institution. Therefore, they often don’t seek legal advice until the damage has been done.

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