Perspective
Aug. 28, 2012
Peer review at a crossroads in California
Clinically and behaviorally challenged physicians are now empowered by the decision in Fahlen to launch harassing lawsuits against hospitals and peer reviewers. By Carlo Coppo of DiCaro, Coppo & Popcke
Clinically and behaviorally challenged physicians are now empowered by the decision in Fahlen v. Sutter Central Valley Hospital, 2012 DJDAR 11289 (Cal. App. 5th Dist. Aug. 14, 2012), to launch harassing lawsuits against hospitals and peer reviewers directly without exhausting administrative and judicial remedies, chilling, if not ending, the statutorily-mandated peer review systems designed by the Legislature. Victims of this trend will be p...
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