[Mobile-Portable] Emergency Frequencies: was Want advice (long)

[D C Macdonald]

Some (most?) states now have "Good Samaritan" laws to
protect those who volunteer to assist.  Whether that law
would protect an M.D. or other medical practitioner against
malpractice, I cannot say.

73  ---  Mac, K2GKK/5
Grand Lake (OK) SPS
Oklahoma City SPS
Grand Lake Flotilla 16-03/8WR, USCGAux



----Original Message Follows----
From: David Weilacher <daveweilacher at earthlink.net>
Reply-To: Mobile-Portable Reflector <mobile-portable at mailman.qth.net>
To: Mobile-Portable Reflector <mobile-portable at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Mobile-Portable] Emergency Frequencies: was  Want advice 
(long)
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 06:52:36 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

Hi Buck;

This is what I got from your story.

The ham was right to prepare for emergencies.  Whether his friends broken 
leg was is a judgement call.  I know what his friend thought.

The sherriff was right for arresting them for encroaching on the police 
freguency.

No matter which way the FCC decides to resolve it in this case by case 
situation will probably be right too.

The question to take from the story may be.  Would you risk your license to 
assist someone that was injured and seemed to require immediate assistance?

I was in a boater safety course once with a medical doctor and his wife.  
They said that they would not stop at the scene of an accident in any 
circumstance because they would lose everything they owned in a malpractice 
lawsuit if they did.  That made it easy to sort out whether they were in it 
for the money or to assist their fellow man.

OTOH, your advice to exhaust every other means available, sure sounds good.