Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital Corporation v. Tuan Nguyen, M.D.

With just a few strokes of the keyboard, the majority carelessly gutted a long-standing and well-established holding of this Court that gave hospitals a wide berth in granting or denying privileges or staff appointments. Nearly twenty-seven years ago, this Court ruled without equivocation:

The decision of a private hospital to revoke, suspend, restrict or to refuse to renew the staff appointment or clinical privileges of a medical staff member is subject to limited judicial review to ensure that there was substantial compliance with the hospital's medical staff bylaws governing such a…