Don’t Call Me a Hero: How to Meaningfully Support Health Care Workers
When you feel complicit in such deep structural dysfunction, it is incredibly difficult to feel heroic.
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By Alex Stein According to the recent New York Court of Appeals’ decision—Applewhite v. Accuhealth, Inc., 2013 WL 3185185 (N.Y. 2013)—governmental immunity is a starting point for any inquiry into EMTs’ liability for malpractice. The Court based this immunity on the famous “duty to all is duty to none” principle: in providing a vital emergency…