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http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measpdf/sb0200.dir/sb0213.intro.pdf
That's an interesting one. System that gives EMS option to refuse transportation is one thing, but a system that requires to refuse to transport certain patients is something new to me.
Are there similar laws anywhere else?
(1) “Emergency medical condition” means a medical condition that manifests itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity, including severe pain, that a prudent layperson possessing an average knowledge of health and medicine would reasonably expect that failure to receive immediate medical attention would place the health of a person, or a fetus in the case of a pregnant woman, in serious jeopardy.
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(3) An emergency medical technician has a duty to refuse to provide the inappropriate use of emergency transportation and to refer an alternative means of transportation to an individual who the emergency medical technician determines does not have an emergency medical condition.
That's an interesting one. System that gives EMS option to refuse transportation is one thing, but a system that requires to refuse to transport certain patients is something new to me.
Are there similar laws anywhere else?