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Universal rules needed for medics responding to calls for help in public

03-01-2007 · EurekAlert!

Universal rules are needed for doctors playing the "Good Samaritan" to members of the public who fall ill outside hospital, says an experienced medic. Dr Rubin is a paediatrician by training, who has responded to some two dozen pleas over the past 25 years to help a member of the public who sustained injuries or became critically ill.

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