Katz v. Children's Hospital Corp.

After the department of medicine at the Children’s Hospital (hospital) established or reinforced its policy of having a full-time staffing model which prohibited physicians in the department’s subspecialties from engaging in private practice, the plaintiffs, Drs. Katz and Flores, were offered full-time positions in their field of gastroenterology. The physicians, however, wished to continue as part-time members of the hospital staff so as to continue in private practice. This was unacceptable to the chief of medicine and to the members of the steering committee of the medical staff executive…