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impaired physician
Management:
1) 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
2) inform the impaired physician's supervisor
3) impaired physicians must be reported to the state medical board
General
physician
References
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 14, 16, 19
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2006, 2012, 2022
- 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: 20628132