MedPage Today April 2, 2023
— It’s time to prohibit employer questions about mental health
As a traveling emergency room doctor, I have spent years filling in for short-staffed hospitals and overwhelmed emergency departments. I know firsthand the challenges of practicing in a new facility. Each time I start a new assignment, I must obtain a new state license and receive hospital privileges to practice, which can take months.
This process is called “privileging” or “credentialing” and it is where hospitals thoroughly vet a clinician’s ability to work in their facility by verifying current and past state licenses, past employment, malpractice history, references, education, residency, and any other issues they may want to know about.
(For new medical students heading into residency or doctors moving,...
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