The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTALA, was passed in 1986 as a federal anti-dumping law. It mandates “patients who present to a hospital emergency department”… “must undergo an appropriate medical screening examination by a physician”… “to determine whether they have an emergency medical condition.”

  • @hikarulsi@lemmy.world
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    21 year ago

    This fact that this is even a topic shows that the physicians there lost their humanity and no longer qualified.

    Imagine the same thing happens to childcare centre, the centre should face closure

    • @ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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      31 year ago

      Physicians have their humanity, but they can’t house the homeless in the ER. They will save their lives when they OD, get hit by a car, or something.