Precious Bodily Fluids: Joint Commission confiscating your coffee? Time to go outlaw.

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Joint Commission confiscating your coffee? Time to go outlaw.

Ever had your coffee confiscated in the name of the Joint Commission.

Did you know that the JC has no standards regarding food and drink in patient care areas?

From the Joint Commission's website.

From now on, I'm going outlaw.

The JCAHO Outlaw badge is now part of the Nephrology Merit Badge collection. (PDF | Pages)

Joel Topf, MD FACP

I am a board certified clinical nephrologist in Detroit. I am a partner at St Clair Nephrology. I am an Assistant Clinical Professor at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and part of the faculty for The St John Hospital and Medical Center Nephrology Fellowship. I have an offices at St Johns Moross, Roseville and Farmington Hills. I am the medical director of St Clair Nephrology Research.

The best way to contact me is by twitter @Kidney_boy, (check out my best tweets at Favstar) or Facebook.

COI: I am on the speakers bureau for Astute Medical. I have an ownership stake in four Davita run dialysis clinics and one vascular access center. Astellas paid for my trip to Australia (Feb '15) for me to speak at one meeting and three hospitals. Takeda Oncology made a donation to MM4MM the program that is taking me to Mount Everest in 2018.