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From: fish@ihu1g.UUCP (Bob Fishell)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: CPR, First Aid, & Liability
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 17:53:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 17:53:58 1986
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> Damn the torpedoes!
> This becomes a moral question as well as a legal one.
> If you come upon someone injured, know (or think you know) what the
> appropriate first aid is, but are not trained in it:
> seek trained help. If there is no trained help, and it does not
> appear that the subject will survive long enough to get to trained
> help, I would help to the best of my knowledge nontheless.
> Damn the legal consequences - all they can take is my money.

The U.S. Congress had considered this dilemma a number of years ago, and
passed what has been known as the "Good Samaritan Act."  I don't know
all the details, but it is a law which limits the liabilities of persons,
including doctors, who stop to render emergency aid in life-threatening
situations.  The law was needed because many doctors were refusing to
render emergency aid in such situations, fearing malpractice suits.
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