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Archive > December, 2004 Vol. V, No. 12

Legal Update

Autonomy — Are Doctors Gaining or Losing?

C. Gregory Tiemeier, Esq.

C. Gregory Tiemeier, Esq. Your medical staff has elected its chief of staff and is ready to follow his lead. But the hospital administration won't recognize his authority, and it summarily adjourns meetings of the staff he calls - because he owns a small part of a competing surgical facility.

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