Khan v. Suburban Community Hospital

Appellant hospital advances three propositions of law which are necessarily interrelated and interdependent and which may be refined into one fundamental issue posed to us for decision.

The question in controversy that emerges is: Where the board of trustees of a private, nonprofit hospital adopts reasonable, nondiseriminatory criteria for the privilege of practicing major general surgery in the hospital, and procedural due process is followed in adopting and applying such criteria, and a staff physician is unable to qualify thereunder, should a court substitute its evaluation of such matters…