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ABA Family Legal Guide
Health-Care Law
Patients' Rights
Emergency Care
- What is an emergency medical condition?
- I'm not insured. If there's an emergency and I have to go to the hospital, do they have to treat me?
- Which hospitals must comply with EMTALA?
- What is an "appropriate medical examination" under EMTALA?
- When is a patient stabilized?
- Is it ever a good idea for a hospital to transfer a patient?
- How should a patient be transferred?
- Do I have a say in whether I get transferred?
- Can I sue the hospital for malpractice if there is a problem with emergency care?
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