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08.06.2017 | Medicolegal Sidebar
Medicolegal Sidebar: Resident Physician Liability
verfasst von:
Wendy Z. W. Teo, BA(Cantab), BM BCh (Oxon), LLM, Lawrence H. Brenner, JD, B. Sonny Bal, MD, JD, MBA, PhD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 8/2017
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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. …