>>> Go to courtesy staff...
I tried that in one of my outlying hospitals since they wanted to force me to go to all of their meetings or else I'd be kicked off staff. During my year as a "courtesy" physician I saw over 150 patient visits (you're allowed like 12). Heck, I figured that what are they going to do? Kick me out for admitting there? Well, what they did was to make me an active physician again, but without enforcing the meeting thing.
Now they are ramping up their "hospitalist" army, so I see that in the future I may have to give up my priviledges again eventually, but then again, I may not send them the bone marrow transplant cases that bring in $200000.00 per case. We'll see...
I hate going to the hospital too...
Al
