Legal Opinion
In re Jon Porter, M.D.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided November 9, 2012No. 2012-045PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtReiber, C.J.
¶ 1. This case asks us to determine whether a physician can be held answerable as a matter of professional discipline solely on the basis of a physicians assistant’s (PA) unprofessional acts. The Board of Medical Practice concluded that it was not required to find Dr. Jon Porter guilty of unprofessional conduct based .solely on the acts of a PA whom he supervised. We affirm.
¶ 2. Dr. Porter, director of the University of Vermont Center for Health and Wellbeing, was a supervising physician for a PA from 1996 through 2009. Sometime in 2009, nursing students conducted a study of drug diversion at…
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