So, we're about an hour into a three-hour flight last week and the flight attendant comes over the PA system and says "If there is a doctor or any medical personnel on the plane, could you please come up to row six? We have a passenger having a seizure."
My husband and I look at each other like "Oh, crap," but another doctor had already gotten up and gone up there. Whew!
My husband is like "I have no idea if the malpractice they give us even covers us for something like this. And a seizure could be a lot of things . . . if it's even actually a seizure."
I med school they taught them the good samaritan laws for New York, but what law applies on airplanes? Federal law? (Is that why they have Federal Marshals on planes?)
Our flight did continue on to its destination (I wonder who made that decision--I wouldn't want to be responsible for that one) so it must have worked out, and my husband is going to ask about the malpractice thing for next time (god forbid).
Has this happened to anyone else? How did it go?
My husband and I look at each other like "Oh, crap," but another doctor had already gotten up and gone up there. Whew!
My husband is like "I have no idea if the malpractice they give us even covers us for something like this. And a seizure could be a lot of things . . . if it's even actually a seizure."
I med school they taught them the good samaritan laws for New York, but what law applies on airplanes? Federal law? (Is that why they have Federal Marshals on planes?)
Our flight did continue on to its destination (I wonder who made that decision--I wouldn't want to be responsible for that one) so it must have worked out, and my husband is going to ask about the malpractice thing for next time (god forbid).
Has this happened to anyone else? How did it go?
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