Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Nyack Hospital
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 27, 1995No. 94 Civ. 7464 (LAK)PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
Hospital staff privileges are essential to the practice of most, perhaps all, medical specialties. Those responsible for extending or revoking staff privileges thus stand at a critical point in the provision of medical care. They bear a weighty responsibility for protecting the public against incompetent and negligent practitioners. At the same time, the power they wield may be abused for any of a panoply of reasons that may imbue human relationships, not least of them racial, religious and ethnic bias, anticompetitive motives, and personal animus.
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2Cases cited47 opinions
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3Cited by38 opinions
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