What Does It Mean for a Doctor to Have Hospital Privileges for a Procedure?
asked 8 months ago by anon
Latest answer by George J. Beraka, MD
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Tags: expertise, qualifications, safety
I've heard that your plastic surgeon should have hospital privileges... What does this mean, exactly? How do they get them and why do they matter for my surgery?
6 answers to What Does It Mean for a Doctor to Have Hospital Privileges for a Procedure?
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Hospital privileges in plastic surgery are vital to your research!
Good question! The point of asking for whether the doctor has hospital privileges is that if a pseudo (fake, sometimes called "cosmetic surgeon") plastic surgeon tries to get privileges from their hospital, their doctor peers in the department of surgery will evaluate them and decide if they have been properly trained to do this kind of surgery. If the hospital allows somebody to do surgery who really isn't qualified (but tries to advertise to you that they are) the...
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Dermatologists do not have hospital privileges to do liposuction.
Hi.
Even though they may call themselves dermatologic surgeons. That is the gist of your question. Gynecologists do not have hospital privileges to do tummy tucks. And ENT surgeons do not have hospital privileges to do breast augmentations.
When you have office -based cosmetic surgery, you want to make absolutely sure that your surgeon can perform, in the hospital, the exact same procedure that will be done to you in the office. Hospital privileges are granted...
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Plastic Surgery privileges
The act of granting a plastic surgeon hospital privileges to perform a specific procedure within our specialty is designed to insure that the operating surgeon has had the proper training and experience to procede with such a procedure. This decision is made by a plastic surgeon's peers who are familiar with such training and qualifications and is meant to protect patients from a physician who seeks to operate on someone without the background and training board-certified plastic...
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Dan H. Shell, III, MD
Memphis Plastic Surgeon
Memphis Plastic Surgeon
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Choosing a surgeon
Hospital privileges for a procedure means the hospital has reviewed the training and malpractice history of a doctor and will allow the doctor to perform the procedure in the hospital. The review is performed by a credentialing committee of other doctors on staff at the hospital. For example the hospital would never allow a brain surgeon to place breast implants in a patient. In the past this provided an extra layer of safety for patients in choosing a surgeon to perform a procedure.
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Aaron Stone, MD
Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon
Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon
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What Standards do Hospital Privileges Set for a Plastic Surgeon?
Every hospital has the right to set standards for the qualifications of its doctors. The majority of Seattle hospitals set very high standards for their physicians. "Privileges," or the right to perform certain procedures are only granted when a doctor has completed a post graduate residency in a specialty recognized by THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION. So an orthopedic surgeon would not have priveleges to...
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The Important meaning of "Hospital Privileges" in Plastic Surgery to your wel-being
We live in a lawyers and lawsuit saturated society. According to the American Bar Association, there were 1,143,358 licensed lawyers in the US in 2007. According to recent statistics by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
we have 760,000 practicing lawyers in the US with law schools spilling an additional 45,000 graduates each year to an overly saturated market. It is not surprising that the result is than over 15 million lawsuits are filed every year - 16 million suits in 2002 (a...
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