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摘要

Do you have an affirmative duty to ensure that patients follow up with either recall appointments or recommended referrals? Of course, you do. In all situations? Got you thinking, eh? Gross v Bart, 149 SW3d 213 (Tex.App. 2004), has an interesting set of facts analogous to an orthodontic setting. Suppose you are working in a large group practice with a few general practitioners and 1 of each specialty, or you are an orthodontist in a pediatric dental practice, or you work in a hospital or public-health clinic. Although you treat a fair number of patients in this setting, you don't treat certain types of cases there for whatever reason, but, instead, you treat them in your own private-practice facility located elsewhere. Okay, the scene is set.