Tate v. University Medical Center of Southern Nevada

Concurrence by

Judge PAEZ.

ORDER

We must decide whether we have jurisdiction to review the district court’s refusal to enjoin a hospital to reinstate a surgeon when he has since lost all of his clinical privileges at the hospital.

I

James Tate, MD, is a board-certified general surgeon who was granted clinical privileges at University Medical Center (“UMC”) by the Medical & Dental Staff of University Medical Center (“Staff”). UMC and Dr. Tate then entered into a Trauma Services Agreement, by which UMC employed Dr. Tate as a surgeon on the trauma on-call schedule. In August, 2008, however, UMC…