Hospital privileges are the right of a physician to use the facilities and equipment of a hospital. Not all physician employees of a hospital have hospital privileges, as they can be removed by order of the Chief of Medicine or the disciplinary board. Hospital privileges are usually specified for each physician employee, so that a surgeon would have the ability to book an operating room, but an internist would not. In Pilot, House has his hospital privileges suspended for failure to do his clinic duty, meaning he had no power to order procedures on patients.