Malpractice trial focuses on physician with temporary privileges
Credentialing Resource Center Connection , August 6, 2009
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The malpractice trial began yesterday for John Christian Gunn, MD whose patient Herberta “Bertie” Lang died after carotid artery surgery. Prosecutors gave the jury multiple reasons why Gunn should not have been granted temporary privileges to perform the surgery, including his questionable clinical judgments and multiple failed certification exams, according to an August 5 article in The Ledger Independent.
Lang’s family is accusing the hospital where Gunn worked and its parent company of corporate negligence. Meadowview Regional Medical Center in Maysville, KY granted Gunn temporary privileges from September 2005 to January 2006.
Although the case focuses on corporate negligence and not negligent credentialing, the jury is hearing credentialing facts, including Gunn’s five consecutive failures to pass his board certification exam. The hospital’s counsel told jurors that the medical staff did not require board certification and that this practice is not uncommon at hospitals.
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