Doctors Addicted: Studys Results Jarring: ; Many Are Reluctant to Report Colleagues with Dependencies
Charleston Gazette › July 14, 2010
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CHICAGO - Your doctor could be drunk, addicted to drugs or outright incompetent, but other physicians may not blow the whistle.
A new survey finds that many American physicians fail to report troubled colleagues to authorities, believing that someone else will take care of it, that nothing will happen if they act or that they could be targeted for retribution.See the full content of this document
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Doctors Addicted: Studys Results Jarring: ; Many Are Reluctant to Report Colleagues with Dependencies
A surprising 17 percent of the doctors surveyed had direct, personal knowledge of an impaired or incompetent physician in their workplaces, said the study's lead author, Catherine DesRoches of Harvard Medical School.
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