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Medicolegal Sidebar: Physician Competence and Skill Part II: Hospital Corporate Responsibility and New Technologies

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1100 Virginia Ave., Columbia, MO, 65212, USA

    B. Sonny Bal MD, JD, MBA

  2. BalBrenner/Orthopaedic Law Center, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    B. Sonny Bal MD, JD, MBA & Lawrence H. Brenner JD

  3. Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

    Lawrence H. Brenner JD

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Note from the Editor-in-Chief: We are pleased to publish the next installment of “Medicolegal Sidebar” to the readers of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®. The following is part two of a two-part series on Physician Competence and Skill. Part one addressed the legal doctrine known as Hospital Corporate Liability. Part two will focus on the application of Hospital Corporate Liability to medical advances and new technology. We welcome reader feedback on all of our columns and articles; please send your comments to eic@clinorthop.org.

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Bal, B.S., Brenner, L.H. Medicolegal Sidebar: Physician Competence and Skill Part II: Hospital Corporate Responsibility and New Technologies. Clin Orthop Relat Res 472, 2023–2027 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-014-3662-2

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