Posted by Marilyn Lawrence on March 25, 1998 at 20:06:45:
1.The Good Samaritan Law Keeps a patient from suing a health care professional of any discipline for injuries that result from a voluntary act of trying to help someone. Two conditions must be there to protect the health care professional: the act must be voluntary act and 2. the efforts must be in good faith not just to practice. An example would be someone who has a neck injury from an accident and spinal cord injury occurs when adjusting the head and neck to open the airway. This could not be sued for if it happened at the roadside, but if the spinal cord injury occured in the E.R. this could be open for a malpractice lawsuit. Medical malpractice cases are considered under the jurisdiction of Civil Law. Civil law deals with finding peaceable resolution of disputes between individuals.
2.I couldn't find anything about laws about "professional courtesy" except when "cruising" the AMA's web-site I found some kind of chat room called Threads and something all these people were discussing was something about the AMA's Council on Ethical & Judicial Affairs (CEJA)opinion on professional in June of 1994, Opinion 6.13 in the AMA's Code of Ethics. I tried to find this and couldn't.