Legal Opinion
Bernie Harry, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Lisa Normil, Deceased v. Wayne Marchant, M.D., Ali Bazzi, M.D.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 16, 2002No. 99-13205PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLACK, Circuit Judge:
This case involves the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EM-TALA), 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd. EMTALA was enacted to prevent “patient dumping,” the publicized practice of some hospitals turning away or transferring indigent patients without evaluation or treatment. Under EMTALA, when an individual presents for treatment at the emergency department of a hospital, the hospital must provide an appropriate medical screening to determine whether an emergency medical condition exists. If an emergency medical condition is determined to exist, the hospital ordinarily must…
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