impaired physician

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Management

  • members of the medical profession have an obligation to protect the welfare of patients that includes taking actionwhen an impaired colleague puts patient(s) at risk
  • inform the impaired physician's supervisor
  • impaired physicians must be reported to the state medical board

More general terms

References

  1. Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 14, 16, 19 American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2006, 2012, 2022
  2. DesRoches CM, Rao SR, Fromson JA et al Physicians' perceptions, preparedness for reporting, and experiences related to impaired and incompetent colleagues. JAMA. 2010 Jul 14;304(2):187-93. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20628132