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Badmouthing ED doctors? Transferring patients just to lessen the workload? Surely this never happens among hospitalists ... or does it?
A study, published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, based on the responses of 77 Chicago hospitalists, documents that unprofessional behavior is not a never-event. A small number of physicians even admitted to falsifying records or doing procedures above their skill level.
According to study coauthor Dr. Vineet Arora, the study focused on rates of unprofessional actions that doctors admitted participating in, because those are more persuasive to the officials who put together trainings on professionalism for doctors and residents, reports Kaiser Health News.
Read the full study in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
Badmouthing ED doctors? Transferring patients just to lessen the workload? Surely this never happens among hospitalists ... or does it?
A study, published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, based on the responses of 77 Chicago hospitalists, documents that unprofessional behavior is not a never-event. A small number of physicians even admitted to falsifying records or doing procedures above their skill level.
According to study coauthor Dr. Vineet Arora, the study focused on rates of unprofessional actions that doctors admitted participating in, because those are more persuasive to the officials who put together trainings on professionalism for doctors and residents, reports Kaiser Health News.
Read the full study in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
Badmouthing ED doctors? Transferring patients just to lessen the workload? Surely this never happens among hospitalists ... or does it?
A study, published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, based on the responses of 77 Chicago hospitalists, documents that unprofessional behavior is not a never-event. A small number of physicians even admitted to falsifying records or doing procedures above their skill level.
According to study coauthor Dr. Vineet Arora, the study focused on rates of unprofessional actions that doctors admitted participating in, because those are more persuasive to the officials who put together trainings on professionalism for doctors and residents, reports Kaiser Health News.
Read the full study in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.