LSU Health Sciences Center must pay

The Shreveport Times reports that the La. Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, has ruled that LSU's medical school in Shreveport must pay a doctor $540,000 for failure to provide him with a hearing before it withdrew its recommendation that he take a test for certification as an ear, nose, and throat specialist. The doctor had completed six years of residency and received a letter of recommendation when the director of the residency program learned that the doctor had performed an "absolutely forbidden" nose job and lesion removal surgery in a LSUHSC clinic. During the trial, two years of requests for LSUHSC to produce a written policy against surgeries such as the one the doctor performed here went unanswered.

Posted by Capital Clerks at January 20, 2005 08:54 AM