[MCOH-EH] Physician Fitness for Duty

[Dr. Mona Khanna]

Greetings, Work Medicine Specialists --

I have been asked to assist in determining whether a physician on hospital
staff is too functionally impaired to perform a job as an
interventionalist. The issues are decreased vision and tremor.
The procedural staff has raised concerns, but in the past the physician has
quashed them with the help of a heavyhanded attorney.

We all know the usual approach to this process with regular
hospital "employees" - obtain a job description, perform a history and
physical exam, obtain specialist reports and then define what the
individual can/can't do via work restrictions. How should we handle this
when the object is a non-employee physician on staff, there is no job
description, and there is a very low threshold for litigation?

Thank you.
Mona Khanna, MD
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