Do your doctors have to take hospital call? Because if you are assigned call, and you cannot make it back in time to take the call, then you can get your hospital privileges suspended. It is up to the physician on call to find a replacement, and it is very difficult to do that at the last minute.
This Dr. probably is not on call, but your statement that very few need to rush home is inaccurate in a call situation.
The docs trade out being on call all of the time. And we have Hospitalists who work for the hospital and some of them are here all of the time.
There isn’t an organization that would not make an adjustment for being stuck in a airport. This guy isn’t a 28 year old resident.