Re: Standards of Professional Responsibility - Another Case

["Michael P. Grissom" <mikeg@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

Let me give a hypothetical answer to Bob's question.  

Let's assume that a Nuclear Medicine Physician working at 
a large hospital in a large mid-western city is removed 
from an NRC license for cause.  The cause is well 
documented.  Your head of nuclear medicine in a far-western 
city contacts you (the RSO) and wonders if there is any 
problem bringing this person on the staff when they are not 
allowed to practice in the mid-western city.

You call the RSO of the hospital in question and find that 
the regulators were not only justified but didn't write up 
ALL the possibilities for malpractice (just hit the more 
defensible ones by the General Counsel's assessment)!!  
However, the individual is only barred from practice at a 
facility receiving Federal aid (medicare, etc.) patients 
(which is ALMOST all hospitals).

Your facility has work available that would be allowed.  
What do you recommend to the head of nuclear medicine as 
the far-western hospital's RSO?  In other words, removal from 
a byproduct material license may not guarantee the individual 
still can't work in the field in another venue in the country!

Just a hypothetical situation...

At 01:59 PM 10/11/95 -0500, you wrote:
>
>A related question:
>
>    What happens with the American Bar Association and/or the American
>    Medical Association if a licensed/certified/credentialled individual
>    has had legal action taken against them in which they are guilty
>    of acts related to their profession and have had limitations placed
>    upon them?
>
>    For instance, physicians and nurses receive state specific credentials.
>    If an individual is multi-state credentialled and is "caught" in one
>    state, can they still practice in the other state?  Can the other state
>    take any action based upon the initial states actions?
>
>I'm taking a Medical Ethics course and this thread seemed a bit appropriate.
>
>Bob
>
>Robert M. Loesch
>DOELAP Administrator
>U.S. Department of Energy
>Germantown, MD 20874
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