October 2013

Staff Credentials and Privileging

Staff Credentialing and Privileging is a daunting undertaking.  Credentialing is the process of examining a health care provider’s background, education and other criteria.  Health care employers must complete some due diligence before they grant a health care worker privileges, particularly because the health care provider is being put in a position of responsibility which may […]

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Peer Review Litigation

An adverse peer review can have a long term adverse effect on physicians.   Peer Review reports which result in an adverse action require a hospital to report that action to the National Practitioner Data Bank.  Physicians who are not members in good standing with the medical staff of a hospital cannot practice medicine at the

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There is Virtue in Work

Some significant people in my life have taught me that work itself is a virtue – not a means to and end, but something to be enjoyed, valued and respected.  As you can see from the images on this site, I’m drawn to the water, to old wooden boats; and to craftspeople that carry on

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