Tag Archives: PHP
BMJ highlights problems in physician health programs
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) recently printed a piece highlighting many of the problems with state Physician Health Programs (PHPs) that I have been writing about for several years. You can find the BMJ piece here: http://bit.ly/29dtSFC I am so … Continue reading
A Call for National Standards and Oversight of State Physician Health Program
My paper of the same title was just published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine. The title sums up the essence of the paper, namely that since other healthcare entities (such as hospitals and residency training programs) are subject to … Continue reading
Deciding Whether To Refer a Colleague to a Physician Health Program
I have a new piece out in the AMA Journal of Ethics about physician health programs. You can find it here.
Ethical Issues in State Physician Health Programs
In our Journal of Addiction Medicine piece just published (which you can access here), co-author John R. Knight MD and myself discuss ethical and managerial considerations regarding state physician health programs (PHPs). These are programs that work with physicians who have … Continue reading