P0802 The exhaustion of remedies doctrine applies to medical peer review procedures, even if a hearing is not scheduled within the sixty-day period specified by the Business and Professions Code, and requires any challenge to the impartiality of the hearing officer to be made within the administrative process before resorting to the courts; since termination of a physician's staff privileges is facially proper until the administrative process is complete, tort actions arising from the termination can not be brought until administrative remedies are exhausted.CitationKAISER v SUPERIOR COURT (Peer Review) 128 CA4 85 [See: B&PC 809 etseq; Westlake v Superior Court 17 C3 465; Sahlolbei v Providence Healthcare 112 CA4 1137, P/AT 11/03]
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