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Professional Boundaries: What to Do When Clinicians Ask Other Clinicians to Prescribe Medications for Them

Professional Boundaries: What to Do When Clinicians Ask Other Clinicians to Prescribe Medications for Them

FromJAMA Author Interviews


Professional Boundaries: What to Do When Clinicians Ask Other Clinicians to Prescribe Medications for Them

FromJAMA Author Interviews

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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Oct 25, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode of JAMA Professionalism: Best Practice, Edward H. Livingston, MD looks at the case of a physician requesting prescription medication from a colleague to examine professional boundaries between physicians and options for managing those boundaries. Shiphra Ginsburg, MD and Wendy Levinson, MD, authors of the related article, join Dr Livingston to discuss the best options for handling this challenging situation. Arthur S. Hengerer, MD, chair of the Federation of State Medical Boards discusses the legal and licensure ramifications of physicians prescribing for other clinicians and Kate E. Engelhardt, MD, and D. Brock Hewitt, MD, MPH, practicing physicians, relate their experience with other clinicians asking them to prescribe medications.
Released:
Oct 25, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Interviews with leading researchers and thinkers in health care about practice-changing research, innovations, and the most pressing issues facing medicine and health care today from JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.