One-third of physicians did not report an impaired or incompetent colleague!

Medicine is supposed to be a self-regulating profession where substandard practices are rectified internally.

But a survey of US physicians reveals this is not always so. Of almost 1900 physicians surveyed, only 64% agreed that they should report all instances of impairment or incompetence. Only one-third of those who had direct knowledge of a problem colleague in the past 3 years had reported it.