How to prevent and address harassment complaints: Balancing physician rights and hospital actions

Medical Economics December 9, 2024
Todd Brower, Esq., Alex Keoskey, Esq., Christopher Mayer, Esq.

Prevention is key. Here’s how to ensure minor workplace issues don’t escalate into lawsuits.

One of the most vexing tasks for physicians, hospital administrators and legal counsel is navigating the competing interests of physicians’ due process rights and hospitals’ legal obligations to prevent, investigate and remedy workplace harassment. The legal ramifications of employment contracts, hospital bylaws and the complicated web of adverse action reporting mechanisms are difficult to traverse for anyone but the most experienced health care attorney. As with all risk management, prevention is key, and there is much that both physicians and medical staff leadership can do to prevent minor civility and communication issues from developing into legal issues and lawsuits.

A duty of professionalism

While physicians have...

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