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Strong Medicine
Marjorie Corman Aaron
This two-party simulation was based on a real case, mediated to resolution many years ago. It offered perfect examples of the ways two parties hold and articulate sincere and completely different perceptions and narratives about the causes of the dispute and the players in it. As is often true in a messy partnership dispute (including but not limited to medical practice businesses), both parties are strongly motivated to settle privately at the same time as they completely distrust, disdain, and demonize the other. The roles are not gender neutral because in the real case, the claimant physician was female, and the partnership doctors were male, as was the partner she accused of quid pro quo harassment. The impacts of gender, gendered roles, and dynamics were strong. In a nutshell, the dispute is between a female radiologist, Dr. Tanner, and Strong Docs Partners, chaired by Dr. Sanders. Dr. Tanner had been a physician partner at Strong Doc Partners for a year before her four-year contract was terminated. Can be altered for mediation.
Strong Medicine Negotiation: Teaching Note (PDF)
Strong Medicine Negotiation: Attorney for Dr. Tanner (PDF)
Strong Medicine Negotiation: Attorney for Strong Doc Partners (PDF)