Abercrombie v. Osteopathic Hospital Founders Ass'n

McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

This case concerns the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, sometimes referred to as COBRA. 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd, et seq.1

Eileen W. Pruitt, age 68, began to experience chest pain in the early morning hours of February 16, 1988, and was taken to the Osteopathic Hospital Founders Association *678in Tulsa, Oklahoma at three o’clock a.m. on February 16, 1988. She was examined by Dr. Thomas Schooley, D.O. and Dr. Roy Guthrie, D.O. An EKG was given. A diagnosis of anterior chest wall syndrome was made, and at about five o’clock a.m. on February 16, 1988, Mrs. Pruitt…