Doctors in the Executive Suite: Should the U.S. and U.K. Be Putting M.D. Licensure at Risk for Shortfalls in Institutional Quality of Care?

Authors

Frances H. Miller, Boston University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 1998

ISSN

1046-4360

Publisher

The Academy

Language

en-US

Abstract

As our healthcare system becomes further managed, delivery organizations are reincreasingly relying upon physician executives to administer the delivery of care by other individual providers. In both the United States and the United Kingdom, this has led to instances in which physician disciplinary procedures have been invoked with respect to physicians who are perceived to be responsible for institutional defiiciencies. The author examines and analyzes the contrasting approaches taken in the two countries, and recommends an activist approach for disciplinary agencies faced with these circumstances.

Recommended Citation

Frances H. Miller, Doctors in the Executive Suite: Should the U.S. and U.K. Be Putting M.D. Licensure at Risk for Shortfalls in Institutional Quality of Care? , in 31 Journal of Health and Hospital Law 217 (1998).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2161