Recognizing and dealing with impaired clinicians: Part II--Treatment options.

J Med Pract Manage

University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Adjunct Professor, Texas A&M College of Medicine, Texas Tech Medical Center, P.O. Box 4015, Horseshoe Bay, TX 78657, USA.

Published: January 2002

Medical licensing boards and clinical societies encourage (and most boards require) physicians to report colleagues reasonably suspected of not practicing safely and competently. Failure to report unsafe, incompetent, or illegally acting clinicians can seriously damage patients, the profession, and the doctor himself/herself. Good-faith reporting is generally protected from lawsuit.

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