Skip to main content
Top
Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® 8/2017

01-08-2017 | Medicolegal Sidebar

Medicolegal Sidebar: Resident Physician Liability

Authors: Wendy Z. W. Teo, BA(Cantab), BM BCh (Oxon), LLM, Lawrence H. Brenner, JD, B. Sonny Bal, MD, JD, MBA, PhD

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 8/2017

Login to get access

Excerpt

It is rare for the US Supreme Court to weigh in on a legal case dealing with academic medical centers and physicians in training, but in 2011 the Supreme Court upheld a Treasury Department regulation that required academic medical centers to pay social security taxes on behalf of resident physician employees [6]. Teaching institutions such as the Mayo Clinic had argued for a tax exemption instead, reasoning that resident physicians were students, or trainees, rather than full-time employees. …
Literature
1.
go back to reference Bahr v Harper-Grace Hospitals, 497 NW2d 526 (Mich Ct App 1993). Bahr v Harper-Grace Hospitals, 497 NW2d 526 (Mich Ct App 1993).
2.
go back to reference Centman v Cobb, 581 N.E.2d 1286 (Ind. Ct. App. 1991). Centman v Cobb, 581 N.E.2d 1286 (Ind. Ct. App. 1991).
3.
go back to reference Cordas v Peerless Transportation, 27 N.Y. S 2d 198 (1941). Cordas v Peerless Transportation, 27 N.Y. S 2d 198 (1941).
4.
go back to reference Gonzalez v St. John Hospital & Medical Center, 739 NW2d 392 (Mich Ct App 2007). Gonzalez v St. John Hospital & Medical Center, 739 NW2d 392 (Mich Ct App 2007).
5.
go back to reference Jistarri v Nappi, 549 A2d 210 (Pa Super Ct. 1988). Jistarri v Nappi, 549 A2d 210 (Pa Super Ct. 1988).
6.
go back to reference Mayo Foundation v United States, 562 U.S. 44 (2011). Mayo Foundation v United States, 562 U.S. 44 (2011).
8.
Metadata
Title
Medicolegal Sidebar: Resident Physician Liability
Authors
Wendy Z. W. Teo, BA(Cantab), BM BCh (Oxon), LLM
Lawrence H. Brenner, JD
B. Sonny Bal, MD, JD, MBA, PhD
Publication date
01-08-2017
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 8/2017
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-017-5402-x

Other articles of this Issue 8/2017

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® 8/2017 Go to the issue