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Health Care & Hospital Law

Feb. 24, 2011

The Growing Crisis in Medical Staff Peer Review Law

Attorney participation in the medical staff peer review process is endangering patient safety, on the one hand, and physician rights, on the other. By Lowell Brown of Arent Fox LLP.


Day after day, hospitals throughout the United States conduct medical staff peer reviews. Most Americans have no idea that this is going on, even though these reviews are vital to the quality of hospital care they will receive. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, never have so many known so little about something so important. Yet that process seems to be moving steadily towards a kind of procedural paralysis that will endanger patient safety while consuming precious resource...

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