DOCTORS, SAMARITANS AND THE ACCIDENT VICTIM
AN EXAMINATION IS MADE OF THE PROBLEM OF THE RELUCTANCE OF PHYSICIANS AND OTHERS TO STOP AND RENDER ASSISTANCE AT HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS FOR FEAR OF LAWSUITS. THE NORTH AMERICAN SOLUTION OF ENACTING GOOD SAMARITAN LAWS WHICH RELIEVE PHYSICIANS AND OTHERS OF POSSIBLE CIVIL LIABILITY WHEN THEY DO STOP TO OFFER THEIR SERVICES IS REVIEWED AND COMPARED TO EUROPEAN SOLUTION. IN MOST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES LAWS HAVE BEEN ENACTED WHICH REQUIRES ALL INDIVIDUALS TO STOP AND ASSIST AT ACCIDENT SCENES UNDER PENALTY OF FINE AND IMPRISONMENT FOR FAILURE TO DO SO. IT SI RECOMMENDED THAT LEGISLATION FOLLOWING THE EUROPEAN MODEL BE ENACTED IN NORTH AMERICA IN ADDITION TO THE PRESENT GOOD SAMARITAN LAWS. SURVEY EVIDENCE PRESENTED INDICATES THAT SUCH LEGISLATION WOULD BE APPROVED BY MOST PHYSICIANS. FROM PHASE I TO PHASES II, III AND IV, HOWEVER, THERE WAS NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN THE MEASURED USAGE RATES OF RESPONDENTS IN THE LAST THREE PHASES.
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Corporate Authors:
YORK UNIVERSIT, TORONTO
TORONTO, ON Canada -
Authors:
- Gray, R J
- Sharpe, G S
- Publication Date: 1973
Media Info
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crashes; Injuries; Legal factors; Legal responsibility; Liabilities; Medical services; Physicians
- Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Law; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00224425
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
- Files: TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Aug 13 2004 6:05PM