Physician legal protection: Surviving academic medical center blame

On October 20, 2015, I did something unremarkable: I turned on the GPS app on my Android phone before driving to work. I had no idea that routine act would one day save my career and expose a pattern of institutional behavior that every academic physician needs to understand.

I was an assistant professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at a major academic medical center. Two days after a high-risk patient …

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Physician legal protection: Surviving academic medical center blame