VIDEO: Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D. presents at the 72nd Annual AAPS Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, Oct. 1 – Oct. 3, 2015 (via YouTube)
Dr. Lawrence Huntoon is known for bringing attention to the critical issue of “Sham Peer Review” as he outlined in the article “Sham Peer Review” published in Arizona Medical in 2004 as well in his 2007 editorial in The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Huntoon is a practicing neurologist as well as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Huntoon describes Sham Peer Review as follows:
Sham peer review is an official corrective action done in bad faith, disguised to look like legitimate peer review. Hospitals use it to rid themselves of physicians who advocate too often or too vociferously for quality patient care and patient safety, and economic competitors frequently use it to eliminate unwanted competition. The alleged “charges” may be totally bogus, fabricated and false, none of which really matters since the hospital controls the entire process. And, if the hospital continues your sham suspension a mere 31 days, you get reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank, and your medical career is effectively over.
The video above is a presentation Dr. Huntoon gave to the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons in 2017 about recognizing and fighting sham peer review in medicine.
