ACEP is working with a coalition of leading national medical societies to address legal barriers that hinder emergency physicians’ ability to practice medicine. This effort includes submitting an amicus brief in United States v. State of Idaho, a case that underscores the state law’s clear conflict with EMTALA. As the brief notes, “the Idaho law is not just a bad law, it’s bad medicine.”
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ACEP Now: Vol 42 – No 01 – January 2023ACEP also signed onto a brief in Texas v. Becerra that explains how the state of Texas is misunderstanding physicians’ EMTALA obligations and that laws prohibiting emergency physicians from providing appropriate care could put pregnant patients at risk. Learn more at acep.org/post-roe.
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