IN RE PORTER

No. 12-045.

70 A.3d 915 (2012)

2012 VT 97

In re Jon PORTER, M.D.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

November 9, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Sorrell, Attorney General, and Kurt A. Kuehl, Assistant Attorney General, Montpelier, for Petitioner-Appellant.

S. Crocker Bennett, II and David M. Pocius of Paul Frank + Collins P.C., Burlington, for Respondent-Appellee.

Angela R. Clark and Ritchie E. Berger of Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C., Burlington, for Amicus Curiae Fletcher Allen Health Care.

O. Whitman Smith of Mickenberg, Dunn, Lachs & Smith, PLC, Burlington, for Amici Curiae Community Health Centers of Burlington, Inc. and Vermont Council of Developmental and Mental Health Services, Inc.

Present: REIBER, C.J., DOOLEY, SKOGLUND, BURGESS and ROBINSON, JJ.


REIBER, 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...

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