In 1970, Pat Summerall and then-Boston Bruins' TV announcer Don Earle did a short post-game segment from inside the team's dressing room at the end of CBS' coverage of the fourth (and what turned out to be the final game) of the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals.
A circumstance in which both the health care provider's and the patient's actions contribute to an injurious outcome is termed contributory negligence. An example would be a patient who fails to follow the physician's orders or fails to show up for follow-up care and then sues when the condition causes permanent damage.
Historically, health care provider employers and employees have tended to use termination âwithout causeâ as a proxy for termination âwithout fault.â That is, in the traditional physician employment agreement, there may be one set of consequences if the agreement is terminated âwith cause,â and another, different set of consequences if the agreement ...