A plagiarism detective himself, med-school dean plagiarizes speech
Dr. Philip Baker, dean of the University of Alberta medical school, has apologized for lifting passages from a speech delivered by another doctor in 2010 and later published in The New Yorker.
Let’s hope the University of Alberta has good PR help. Last weekend, Dr. Philip Baker, head of the university’s medical school, got into some trouble.
The Edmonton Journal reports:
“Students publicly complained on the weekend about Dr. Philip Baker’s after-dinner speech to graduates Friday night. They said the speech lifted passages word-for-word from one given by Dr. Atul Gawande at Stanford University in 2010 and later published in The New Yorker.”
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