Is it ethically appropriate for an on-call dentist to provide more than palliative care for my patients while I am away from the office?

摘要

QI recently was away on vacation for a week, and the office that provided emergency coverage has a new associate who saw two of my patients, each of whom had a broken cusp. Rather than provide palliative care, the associate scheduled my patients for new crowns without a word to me. Does our Code of Professional Conduct address this kind of behavior?