QUESTION 16 OF 25

If you were to receive a communication from the Executive Committee about a practice issue of yours that it feels could have clinical repercussions, how would you address the members when you went to the meeting with them?

This is more than just hospital policy, but a challenge to your clinical authority, which is traditionally up to the physician alone. Therefore, it can be upsetting. This is a question of how you handle personal challenges to your privileges. Even if you're right and the Executive Committee is wrong, you have to show them you're willing to be a good sport about the whole thing.

"Prior to my meeting, I would research the literature about what I was doing in this particular practice, be it off-label prescribing or using protocols not considered to be evidence-based. My authority allows for some latitude. If in researching this I discover a serious problem that justifies their concern, I would report that I have learned from this and will not be repeating the practice(s) of concern. If I found that I can defend what I'm doing from my research, I would make my case but tell them I will abide by their decision on this."

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If you were to receive a communication from the Executive Committee about a practice issue of yours that it feels could have clinical repercussions, how would you address the members when you went to the meeting with them?

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