Due Process

Due Process is one of the most critical issue facing emergency physicians today. By agreeing to waive their rights to due process when signing contracts with some contract management companies, emergency physicians can unwittingly give their employers the power to terminate them without cause and without notice.

• AAEM Due Process Petition

AAEM believes so strongly in the importance of emergency physicians retaining their due process rights that both the original AAEM Mission Statement and a recently adopted Position Statement address this sensitive issue.

• AAEM Mission Statement
• AAEM Position Statement on Due Process

And AAEM isn't alone. Every other hospital-based specialty understands the importance of due process, embodied by the following policies held by the American Medical Association.

• AMA Policies Regarding Due Process

Other recent headlines impacting due process rights are included below.

• Swinging Pendulum of Peer Review Immunity (added 7/26/02)
• Texas Legal Case Challenges Surgeons' Staff Privileges (added 1/15/01)
• Court Rules on Notice Under HCQIA for Staff Privilege Revocation
• Physicians Awarded $22.8 Million after Losing Privileges (Jul/Aug 1999)
• The JCAHO Responds - Supporting Rights of Due Process (Nov/Dec 1999)