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| Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider |
| June 2008 |
| Hospitals' creative solutions ensure adequate ED coverage |
| "It's getting a little scary out there."
So says Michael R. Callahan, Esq., a healthcare attorney at Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP, in Chicago, who works frequently on hospital medical staff issues, in reference to the difficulties hospitals face trying to ensure the availability of specialists to provide emergency department (ED) coverage. Faced with a shortage of physicians willing to take call, hospitals are trying to find ways to enforce an obligation to take ED call without alienating the medical staff-mostly without success. |
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