Some flash points in clinical staff relations are recurring and predictable. In an interview for a new position, you are asked, “How should our HCO deal with these issues?
Interspecialty disputes: orthopedics and imaging, surgery and cardiology, or nonphysicians and physicians?
Emergency referrals: Providing specialist care to emergency patients, who often arrive at inconvenient times and without insurance or financing?
Impaired or obstructive clinical staff members?