The executive committee of Charity hospital charged last night that some doctors recommended for appointment to the residential physician staff had been rejected without ample cause by the medical committee of the institution's board of administrators.
The charge, issued at a meeting, of the board, brought swift rebuttal from the medical committee.
A policy "as we understood it" was followed in handling the recommendations, Dr. W. J. Rein, chairman of the medical committee, declared.
He called a meeting at 9:30 a. m. today in the hospital's board room between the medical committee and representatives of the executive committee. The executive committee is composed of heads of various departments' of the hospital. Explains Recommendations
"If we are responsible for the care of patients in our departments" said Dr. M. E. Lapham, dean of the Tulane university school of medicine, "we should be allowed to select our subordinates."
Recommendations' are made "with the greatest care by the ex-
ecutive committee," he declared.
Dr. Lapham was backed by Dr. William Frye, dean of the Louisiana State university medical school.
