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Maryland MD resigns after heart stents found to be unnecessary

Credentialing Resource Center Connection, March 15, 2007

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Cardiologist John R. McLean, MD, resigned his medical staff privileges at a Salisbury, MD, hospital earlier this month after an independent review found that 25 of McLean's heart stent procedures in 2006 may not have been medically necessary, according to the hospital's Web site. McLean cited a visual impairment as the reason for his resignation.

Peninsula Regional Medical Center, where McLean was an independent medical practitioner (and not employed by the hospital), has begun a process of following up with patients who may have received an unnecessary stent, and the hospital is conducting an internal and external review of the matter.

According to a written statement issued on March 7, the hospital "will continue to review Dr. McLean's cases, both internally and with outside experts, and take any necessary measures."

According to a report in The Daily Times out of Salisbury, MD, questions about the procedure began last fall after an anonymous tip.

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