Privilege Overlap

See also:
AAFP-ACOG Joint Statement on Cooperative Practice and Hospital Privileges
Privileges
Privilege Assignment in Departmentalized Hospitals
Privileges at Competing Hospitals
Privileges, Documentation of Training and Experience
Privileges, Electrocardiogram Interpretation
Privileges, Emergency Care Services
Privileges, Family Medicine Departments and
Privileges and Training for New Procedures
Privilege Support Protocol
Privileging Policy Statements
Privileges, Special/Critical Care Unit Privileges
Privileges, Surgical Assistant

Family medicine encompasses continuous, comprehensive, quality care, emphasizing patient advocacy. Family physicians should have access to their patients in all areas of a healthcare facility, including areas of high technological care, through appropriate privileging. Patients should have access to family physicians in all these areas. The AAFP strongly believes that all medical staff members should recognize that overlap occurs between many specialties and that no one department "owns" or has exclusive rights to any particular privileges. (2002) (2008)