Using marijuana 2 times a month cost this doctor his license

If a physician has a substance use or mental health problem, it is in everyone’s interest — the physicians themselves, their patients and their families — for them to get treatment. And if they go for treatment, they deserve to be treated fairly, but given my six years of experience as an associate director in one state physician health program (PHP) and in working with physicians from all across the U.S. since then, their treatment is often anything but fair. Consider what happened to Dr. Smith*: Dr. Smith was a board-certified physician working on a locum tenens basis for a hospital and had never had any complaints or allegations of misconduct. In fact, the hospital liked his work so much they asked him to work for them full time, which would require jumping through a few hoops, including obtaining a pre-employment physical exam and being drug tested. He lives in a state where marijuana is fully legal and freely told them he used cannabis twice a month on average, in the evenings after work, just in case it showed up on the drug test. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs