It’s Not My Responsibility

doi:10.1017/9781009400947.034

Chapter 25 - It’s Not My Responsibility

from Part VII - The Big Picture:

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 May 2025

Mary Beth Foglia and

Robert A. Pearlman

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Paul J. Ford and

Denise M. Dudzinski

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Paul J. Ford: Affiliation:
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland
Denise M. Dudzinski: Affiliation:
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle

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In this chapter of Complex Ethics Consultations: Cases that Haunt Us, the authors discuss a case where a medical trainee did not provide best follow-up while working overtime hours at an unaffiliated medical urgent care clinic. The patient later came to the hospital at which the resident had a primary affiliation without the initial EKG. After the patient died, the ethics committee was confronted with a variety of issues including the scope of their responsibility as well as the gap in institutional responsibility.

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haunting ethics committee moonlighting resident physician missed diagnosis institutional ethics medical error

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Type: Chapter
Information: Complex Ethics Consultations
Cases that Haunt Us
, pp. 201 - 206

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009400947.034 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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