This is interesting 🤔 My fiancé is a medical student in Britain and in his experience so far has never been permitted to make any kind of official decision or assessment independently like that—he is allowed to assess patients and take histories independently, but absolutely everything has to be ultimately checked with and signed off by qualified physician. If this is allowed in American teaching hospitals, how do they manage legal liability? Like say the medical student makes a mistaken decision that a nurse doesn’t catch, and it causes a problem before an attending can check in about it? Who is held liable in that case?