Law BY JOEY BERLIN
Fair evaluations, no “witch hunts”
TEXAS SUPREME COURT DECISION GIVES PHYSICIANS MORE PROTECTION AGAINST “SHAM” PEER REVIEW
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Miguel Gomez, MD, prevailed in a Texas Supreme Court decision allowing him access to key documents he says will prove a Houston-area hospital’s alleged “whisper campaign” to tarnish his reputation. Dr. Gomez sought help from TMA’s Patient- Physician Advocacy Committee.
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n Nov. 1, 2011, Miguel Go- mez, MD, found himself on the spot, launching an
impromptu defense of his practice. According to claims in court documents, the Houston-area car- diothoracic surgeon watched at a system-wide meeting that day as Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center — where he’d been practicing for more than a decade — made it a point to publicly impugn his reputation. In front of 30 or 40 of his col-
leagues, according to Dr. Gomez, a fellow thoracic surgeon at Memo- rial Hermann presented data and statements intended to cast Dr. Go- mez’s surgical skills in an unfavor- able light, including distorted data related to his patient mortality rate. An alleged smear campaign
against Dr. Gomez — a “whisper campaign” he says he was unaware
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