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[dstevens58]

Terry Barth complained to hospital officials that he was "kidnapped" by paramedics and thus cannot be liable for the $40,000 he has been billed by Enloe Medical Center in Chico, Calif., where he was brought by ambulance following a motorcycle crash in August 2010. Barth said he had insisted at the scene that paramedics not take him to a hospital because he had no medical insurance. (Paramedics are legally required to take anyone with a serious head injury.) [KOVR-TV, 7-7-2011]

 

[Handsome Robb]

If he was A&O and competent on scene he has every right to refuse care.

 

[JJR512]

(Paramedics are legally required to take anyone with a serious head injury.)

If he was A&O and competent on scene he has every right to refuse care.

If the first quote is true then the second one is not. However, if the pt. has a true serious head injury, he might not be truly CAOx3, which might be why that law exists in that particular jurisdiction in the first place.