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minus-squarekevincox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 hours agoIn Canada all provinces have some form of Good Samaritan law which means that you aren’t responsible other than gross negligence. So any off-duty doctor would be very safe to help out unless they were doing something very stupid.
minus-squareCannonFodder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoBut who defines ‘very stupid’. The loved ones of the person who dies because the doctor didn’t recommend an emergency stop?
minus-squarekevincox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoOf course it can only surely be decided in a court. But in this case it would be something like was not actively trying to cause harm.
In Canada all provinces have some form of Good Samaritan law which means that you aren’t responsible other than gross negligence. So any off-duty doctor would be very safe to help out unless they were doing something very stupid.
But who defines ‘very stupid’. The loved ones of the person who dies because the doctor didn’t recommend an emergency stop?
Of course it can only surely be decided in a court. But in this case it would be something like was not actively trying to cause harm.