Study shows high level of success for rehabilitating physicians with mental/behavioral health issues
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, February 15, 2007
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A Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) Physician Health Services program has shown that it is possible to monitor physicians with behavioral or mental health problems while they continue to practice medicine. The study demonstrated a success rate comparable to that of monitoring substance abuse disorders.
Researchers followed and examined data on physicians with both substance abuse disorders and mental/behavioral health problems over the course of ten years through a vigorous program of monitoring. The study included 58 physicians of the latter variety, 120 of the former. The program had a success rate of 74 percent of mental/behavioral health problem physicians, and 75 percent of substance abuse disorder-impaired physicians.
Source: The Massachusetts Medical Society (www.mms.org)
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