Geisinger Health System Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania ; Temple University School of Medicine, Pennsylvania.
J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, School of Social Work, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Sports Health. 2013 Jul;5(4):340-5. doi: 10.1177/1941738112474226.
Physicians need to consider medical-legal issues when volunteering their time to assist with community mass-participation and athletic events. This article also reviews medical-legal aspects of the volunteer physician's out-of-state practice. Seven cases illustrate the importance of expertise and planning to avoid legal issues for the volunteer event physician.
Relevant studies, expert opinion, medical-legal legislation, and medical-legal cases were reviewed.
Physicians typically make 4 common assumptions regarding these types of events: Good Samaritan legislation, event liability insurance, personal liability insurance, and waivers. We discuss the intent of these assumptions and the reality of how, or how not, they provide any protection to the volunteer event physician.
The intent of this article is to make physicians aware of medial-legal issues when volunteering their time for community and athletic events.
当医生自愿为社区参与和体育赛事提供帮助时,他们需要考虑医疗法律问题。本文还回顾了志愿医师州外执业的医疗法律方面。七个案例说明了为志愿活动医生提供专业知识和规划以避免法律问题的重要性。
回顾了相关研究、专家意见、医疗法律立法和医疗法律案例。
医生通常对这些类型的事件做出 4 个常见假设:好撒玛利亚人立法、活动责任保险、个人责任保险和弃权。我们讨论了这些假设的意图以及它们如何或如何不能为志愿活动医生提供任何保护的现实情况。
本文的目的是让医生在为社区和体育赛事自愿服务时意识到医疗法律问题。