Do you have a contingency plan if your on-call person is unavailable? In this article a Doctor swapped call duty with an associate in his practice. The doctor did not inform the hospital of his arrangement. In addition the new on-call doctor did not have privileges at that hospital. A patient arrived that required care from the on-call physician who did not have privileges at the hospital. By the time the patient was admitted to the new hospital the patient was deteriorating. Subsequently the patient died and the family sued both doctors.
Does your organization have a plan in place to deal with a situation like this?
The entire article is located at: http://www.medlaw.com/healthlaw/HOSPITAL/6_2/missouri-court-upholds-li.shtml
Thursday, December 6, 2007
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