Emergency rooms in America are OBLIGATED to treat you, period. Private doctors are not obligated but ERs CANNOT turn anyone away or they lose their licenses. I don’t believe this post.
Edit- if he won’t give them antibiotics it’s because it’s viral. Antibiotics don’t work on viruses. He could still give them a breathing treatment and cough medicine though. Maybe they weren’t critical.
Emergency rooms in America are OBLIGATED to treat you, period. Private doctors are not obligated but ERs CANNOT turn anyone away or they lose their licenses. I don’t believe this post.
Edit- if he won’t give them antibiotics it’s because it’s viral. Antibiotics don’t work on viruses. He could still give them a breathing treatment and cough medicine though. Maybe they weren’t critical.
^this EMTALA requires medical screening and treatment for emergency conditions.
https://www.cms.gov/medicare/provider-enrollment-and-certification/certificationandcomplianc/downloads/emtala.pdf
Yes and steroids!
Also, secondary infections (if that’s what it was) can be treated w/ antibiotics if I’m not mistaken. 🤔
Yes. I need a link to this story. Nothing makes sense.
Agreed!
the dr comes into the emergency room, and makes a decision to admit or not. The rest is on him.