Re: Credentialing
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Thu Feb 3 06:50:34 2005
i second that emotion.
art
At Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Efrain Ramirez wrote:
>
>In my judgement - orthodepic surgeons should evalute this specific issue
>- not an ObGyn -
>
>>At Wed, 2 Feb 2005, ainsron wrote:
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>>Sure, but the chairman of the credentials committee wants us to help them
>>with this issue.
>>
>>Ronald E. Ainsworth
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Efrain
>>Ramirez
>>Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 12:46 PM
>>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>>Subject: Re: Credentialing
>>
>>Is there a "Credentialing Committee" in the institution? I would not
>>work that alone.
>>
>>>At Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Dr. Ainsworth wrote:
>>>
>>>I'm Surgery Chairman at my hospital for the next two years. One issue
>>>that is coming up is how do you safely credential individuals for new
>>>procedures, or procedures that are new approaches to surgeries they have
>>>been performing. For example, one experienced, board certified orthopod
>>>has learned a minimally invasive hip replacement technique which should
>>>allow patients to be discharged early from the hospital and provided
>>>evidence of attendance at several meetings, didactic training, cadaver
>>>training and has an experienced proctor paid for by the manufacturer of
>>>the new-fangled hip coming to observe his first case. How do you
>>>evaluate when enough is enough?
>>
>>--
>>"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
>>But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
>>
>>Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
>>
>--
>"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
>But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
>
>Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
>
--
art fougner, md
"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else."
Lawrence Peter Berra
