Wed Feb 29, 2012, 04:27pm
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Originally Posted by yawetag
In my case, I have been trained to give emergency care. While my license was active (I've let it lapse), my only legal obligation in an emergency (that I wasn't called to for my job) was to call 9-1-1, and anything above that fell under my certification. Because of this, if I did something wrong, Good Samaritan would not help me at all. For someone who is CPR certified, Good Samaritan will not protect you if you do something above your level of training or if you do it incorrectly.
My point is that helping someone without proper training and using "Good Samaritan" to back up your assistance won't always help.
Again, I don't want to make this a legal thread.
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If true (and what you say is NOT true here, but I'm no lawyer), that really sucks that they would create a law so that the person who is MOST likely to be able to help in a situation like this is legally unable to help. Rather dumb, that.
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