LAW
Legal backup TMA, AMA support physicians who sue
Ajay Gaalla, MD, left, Dakshesh “Kumar” Parikh, MD, and Harish Chandna, MD, right, Victoria cardiologists, sued Citizens Medical Center in February after the hospital passed a resolution closing the cardiology department to noncontracted physicians. The plaintiff physicians allege that the reduc- tion in their medical staff privileges was motivated by ethnic discrimination and economic considerations.
“Backing from
organized medicine gives individual physicians some standing.”
BY CRYSTAL CONDE
There comes a time in many physicians’ careers when they
need legal reinforcement. One physician or a small group of doctors may battle a large private or governmental entity with robust financial resources in court, or orga- nized medicine may need to fight scope-of-practice battles. Physicians need to know they can count on strong allies to defend their profession and their individual rights. The Texas Medical Association regularly collaborates with the Litigation Center of the American Medical Association and State Medical Societies to present a united front in legal cases that might affect the practice of medicine in Texas and even the nation. The Litigation Center has been the medical profession’s voice in legal pro-
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PHOTO PROVIDED BY HARISH CHANDNA, MD
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