" Peer Review Victim of Murphy's Law "
Testimony of Gil N. Mileikowsky, M.D. California Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee
" Is Physician Peer Review a Broken System ? "
State Capitol Room # 4203 - Sacramento, CA
Public Hearing - March 9, 2009
Appendix to Testimony
- "Pursuing a Cause with Passion"
Los Angeles County Medical Association Member Gil Mileikowsky, MD strives to save patients' lives and physicians' careers by Russell A. Jackson, published in Southern California Physician - March 2008
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- "Gil Mileikowky, M.D.: One of 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better"
HealthLeaders Media - December 2008
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- www.Baby4You.net
Website of Dr. Mileikowsky's Obstetrics & Gynecology, Infertility, In-Vitro Fertilization
Reproductive Endocrinology & Laser Surgery Practice, includes Curriculum Vitae.
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- "Due Process - First things first in peer review"
AM News Editorial - 6/18/2001
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- "Suspended California Physician's Hearing Put on Hold
Some say peer review is jeopardized after a hospital revokes a doctor's privileges and keeps delaying an inquiry on the charges." by Tanya Albert, AM News - 06/18/2001
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- Letter from Dr. Mileikowsky to Beverly Parks of the Institute for Medical Quality dated 6/14/2000 detailing medical errors and lack of oversight at ETRMC
(Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center)
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- California Superior Court, County of Los Angeles, Document Designating Dr. Mileikowsky as an Expert Witness against ETRMC on June 19, 2000 Three days later ETRMC informs Dr. Mileikowsky (see above letter) that he has engaged in"threatening, disruptive, dangerous and unacceptable behavior" and requiring him to be monitored by security personnel while on the hospital premises.
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- Letter to Dr. Mileikowsky from ETRMC's CEO Dale Surowitz - informing Dr. Mileikowsky that he must be accompanied by security personnel whenever on the hospital premises - June 23, 2000 (note: Mark Kawa, Esq.- recommends this measure in his "Disruptive Physician" article)
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- Declaration of Gil N. Mileikowsky, M.D. filed 6/28/2000
in the case of Mrs. and Mr. Head v. ETRMC, Dr. Vermech and Dr. Ben Ozer. Case of battery as both fallopian tubes were removed without patient's consent and three frozen embryos were lost.
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- Second Letter from Dr. Mileikowsky to Beverly Parks of the Institute for Medical Quality dated 7/29/2000 detailing lack of investigation into medical errors at ETRMC
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- "Rape of the Medical Peer Review Process by Tenet Healthsystem."
Gil Mileikowsky, M.D. - 3/21/2002
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- How to Get Rid of a "Disruptive" Physician
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- "How to Protect Physician Whistleblower - Patient Advocates -
from Retaliation to Benefit Patients"
a legal analysis regarding Summary Suspension, Retaliation, Peer Review and Remedies
by Dr. Gil Mileikowsky, MD and Bartholomew Lee, Attorney at Law.
October 30, 2007 - posted on the AHLA - MSCPR website
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- In search of the “Black Box”
for a reliable and cost-effective quality control of the delivery of medical care - 2/2006 by Gil N. Mileikowsky, M.D. read article
- "To Err is Human, Repeating the Same Error Can Be Fatal"
Powerpoint Presentation - 2009 ACLM Meeting
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- "Physicians Policing Physicians:
The Development of Medical Staff Peer Review Law at California Hospitals"
Philip L. Merkel - Winter 2004 - University of San Francisco Law Review
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- "The Fox Guarding the Henhouse:
How the health care quality improvement act of 1986 and state peer review protection statutes have helped protect bad faith peer review in the medical community" by Yann H.H. van Geertruyden Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy - Winter 2001
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- "Juxtaposing Sarbanes-Oxley With JCAHO Governance Standards:
A Shortcut to Auditable Health Compliance?" by Michael J. Myers, South Dakota Law Review - 2006
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- "The Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986
and
Physician Peer Reviews: Success or Failure?" by Bryan G. Hall - University of South Dakota - 2003
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- "Peer Review: Current Law and Policy Problems"
by David A. Hyman, J.D., HealthSpan - July/August 1991
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