Not to drift too far off talk, but I just lost my position at a hospital after a new anesthesia group contracted with them. The hospital bylaws allow for physicians to automatically lose their privileges should there be an exclusive contract in place that one is not part of. I can reluctantly accept that, even though there is at least one physician (protected by the big spine surgeon) who works outside of the new group's contract. I take issue with the immediate revocation of my well-earned Senior Staff membership. There is no specific language in the bylaws regarding this but the Chief of Staff says that since my privileges are gone I can no longer have active patient care responsibilities and are therefore ineligible for continued membership. My argument is that there's no language specifying this and that privileges and membership are not uniquely tied together since I can contribute to my local hospital's well-being and growth in other ways. I should note that there are a number of physicians on the medical staff roster who haven't had any patient contact in 5 or more years but show up for lunch.
I've been pursuing this as I believe the process and decision were invalid and that the action is discriminatory. The most recent response has a heading of Peer Review Correspondence so I'm wondering if this was done such that it can be added to my personal file and thus disseminated to others? How it can be peer review related in any sense it's, given that I was terminated on May 1 when the "exclusive" contract went into effect.