Featured blog post: Was care spread too thin with multi-hospital privileges?
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, November 18, 2010
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It’s not uncommon for practitioners to hold privileges at more than one facility. But can a practitioner’s ambitions put patient care in jeopardy? Should medical staffs set a limit on how many different facilities their privileged practitioners may practice at, or set limits on patient case load at each facility?
These are some of the questions raised by the case of Eldridge Pearsall, MD, an OB-GYN who was put on probation by the Medical Board of California after several cases of sub-standard care were called into question.
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