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2299763

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-3-13
pubmed:abstractText
Although physician impairment may have substantial personal and clinical consequences, it is commonly held that physicians fail to act in the case of impaired colleagues. To learn about initial responses when confronted with impaired house officers and attending physicians, we administered five case scenarios to all 76 internal medicine house officers at a large, urban, teaching hospital. House officer responses to an alcohol-impaired physician differed depending on whether that physician was an attending physician or a house officer. Seventy-two percent of house officers would tell the chief resident about the alcohol-impaired attending physician, whereas 96% would confront the alcohol-impaired house officer personally. The most common response to the incompetent attending physician (67%) and the incompetent house officer (49%) was to tell the chief resident; only 25% would confront an incompetent house officer. In contrast, 71% would confront a depressed house officer.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0098-7484
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
16
pubmed:volume
263
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
958-60
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:otherAbstract
KIE: The authors surveyed 76 medical house officers at Providence's Rhode Island Hospital to determine their responses to physician impairment. Impairment is defined broadly as any condition that may adversely affect a physicians's health or his or her care of patients. The house officers were asked to respond to five scenarios in which they came in contact with attending physicians or fellow house officers who either were abusing alcohol, professionally incompetent, or suffering from depression. Initial responses differed considerably depending on the status of the impaired colleague, vis-à-vis the house officer. The house officers preferred to confront personally an impaired colleague, and to report an impaired or incompetent attending physician to higher medical authorities.
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
House officer responses to impaired physicians.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article