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You're being downvoted, but you're right. According to the EMTL Act, both private and public emergency rooms can't turn away or delay care to patients that nee
by bduerst 10y ago
You're being downvoted, but you're right. According to the EMTL Act, both private and public emergency rooms can't turn away or delay care to patients that need it.
- etjossem 10y agoThe EMTALA was a policy decision we made through our representatives (it doesn't have anything to do with the Hippocratic Oath). For the same reasons the EMTALA passed, we should be killing sit/lie bills - and hostile designs like this - whenever we see them. Park benches are about the absolute lowest form of safety net you can imagine for a night's sleep, just as ER treatment without asking questions is for health. It's so far below the bare minimum that it would be repugnant to deny it.
- bduerst 10y agoI didn't say they were one and the same - just showing that it's illegal to turn someone away.