"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Peter R." wrote in message
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jmk wrote:

A doctor refusing to stop and render aid for fear he might be sued???

I thought that these US-based lawsuits were exactly what the "Good
Samaritan" law passed so many years ago was designed to prevent? Is this
not the case anymore?

They are in effect in some states. They don't cover doctors.

No, that's not true. Here in Massachusetts, for example, Part I, Title XVI,
Ch. 112, 12B states: "No physician... who, in good faith, as a volunteer and
without fee, renders emergency care or treatment, other than in the ordinary
course of his practice, shall be liable in a suit for damages as a result of
his acts or omissions...".

http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/112-12b.htm

--Gary