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The regular practice of medicine in a licensed general or specialized hospital having five or more physicians and surgeons on the medical staff, which does not have rules established by the board of directors thereof of the hospital to govern the operation of the hospital, which rules include, among other provisions, all the following, constitutes unprofessional conduct:(a) Provision for the organization of physicians and surgeons licensed to practice in this state who are permitted to practice in the hospital into a formal medical staff with appropriate officers and bylaws and with staff appointments on an annual or biennial basis.
(b) Provision that membership on the medical staff shall be restricted to physicians and surgeons and other licensed practitioners competent in their respective fields and worthy in professional ethics. In this respect respect, the division of profits from professional fees in any manner shall be prohibited and any such division shall be cause for exclusion from the staff.
(c) Provision that the award or maintenance of hospital or clinical privileges, or both, shall not be contingent on participation in a program for maintenance of certification.
(c) (d) Provision that the medical staff shall be self-governing with respect to the professional work performed in the hospital; that the medical staff shall meet periodically and review and analyze at regular intervals their clinical experience; and the medical records of patients shall be the basis for such review and analysis.
(e) In the case of a public hospital, as defined in Section 14105.98 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, provision that physicians and surgeons providing substantial direct patient care may limit hospital committee voting on issues affecting patient care to those physicians and surgeons providing substantial direct patient care. For purposes of this subdivision, “substantial direct patient care” means that 50 percent or more of the practice of the physician and surgeon at the public hospital, on an annual basis, is spent providing direct patient care.
(d) (f) Provision that adequate and accurate medical records be prepared and maintained for all patients.