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12

See id. at 706-07.

13

Id. at 707.

14

Id. at 708-09.

15
16
17

See id. at 710-11.

32

Id. at 709.

U.S. DEP'T OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVS., HEALTH
RESOURCES & SERVS. ADMIN., NPDB GUIDEBOOK
E-21 (2001), available at www.npdb.hrsa.gov/
resources/NPDBGuidebook.pdf.

33

Id. at 709-10.

Id.

34

See AM. MED. ASS'N, COUNCIL ON MED. SERV.,
SUPERVISION AND PROCTORING BY FACILITY
MEDICAL STAFF 1-2 (1999) [hereinafter AMA
REPORT], available at www.ama-assn.org/resources/
doc/cms/a99cms3.doc; CAL. MED. ASS'N, CMA
GUIDELINES FOR MEDICAL STAFF PROCTORING 1
(2012) [hereinafter CMA GUIDELINES], available at
www.cmanet.org/files/pdf/omss/proctoring-policy.pdf.

18

Id. at 711.

19

See id. at 711-12.

20

See id. at 712-13.

21

See id. at 728; see also, e.g., Ennix v. Stanten, 556 F.
Supp. 2d 1073, 1085 (N.D. Cal. 2008) (holding that
for purposes of a 42 U.S.C. § 1981 discrimination
claim, the plaintiff, an African-American cardiac
surgeon, demonstrated that other cardiac surgeons
at the health center where he was a member of the
medical staff were not subject to the same scrutiny
and restrictions, including proctoring).

22

See Brintley, 904 F. Supp. 2d at 725-29.

23

Id. at 728.

24

Id.

35

CMA GUIDELINES, supra note 34, at 1-2.

36

AMA REPORT, supra note 34, at 2; CMA
GUIDELINES, supra note 34, at 5.

37

AMA REPORT, supra note 34, at 3-4.

38

Id. at 3.

39

Id.

60

Id.

61

Id. at 3-4.

62

Joint Comm'n, Focused Professional Practice
Evaluation (revised Jan. 31, 2013), available at www.
jointcommission.org/mobile/standards_information/
jcfaqdetails.aspx?StandardsFAQId=467&StandardsF
AQChapterId=74.

25

See id. at 728-29.

26

Id. at 729.

27

See 42 U.S.C.A. § 11111 (West, through P.L. 113-74
(excluding P.L. 113-66 and 113-73)).

28

See Brintley, 904 F. Supp. 2d at 733-40.

29

See id.

63

See id.

30

See 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 11133(a)(1)(A), 11151(9).

64

See id.

31

See, e.g., Brintley, 904 F. Supp. 2d at 709 (noting
that Brintley's proctorship was a "restriction of [her]
privileges").

65

See Brintley v. St. Mary Mercy Hosp., 904 F. Supp.
2d 699, 733-40 (E.D. Mich. 2012); Clark v. Hoek,
219 Cal. Rptr. 845, 853 (Ct. App. 1985).

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See, e.g., Loxley v. Chesapeake Hosp. Auth., 166
F.3d 333 (4th Cir. 1998) (noting that a physician
withdrew from proctoring another physician at the
urging of his partners, who were "concerned about
both liability and 'the potential impact on our
professional reputations'").

67

CMA GUIDELINES, supra note 34, at 3.

68

See Clark, 219 Cal. Rptr. at 848, 851; Zablocki v.
Wilkin, No. CI 02-2618, 2003 WL 25580058
(Ohio Com. Pl. Apr. 16, 2003).

69

See U.S. DEP'T OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVS.,
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GEN., WORK PLAN
FOR FISCAL YEAR 2014 7 (2014), available at
http://oig.hhs.gov/reports-and-publications/archives/
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