Health Equity

Establishing Medical Civil Rights

Abstract: There is currently no legal right in any U.S. jurisdiction for a person in an encounter with police to request and be provided immediate emergency medical care by an objective clinical entity. A bill in the Massachusetts legislature would provide such a right.

Publication: New England Journal of Medicine

Date Published: April 28, 2021

Author(s): Leonore A. Dluhy, B.A., Brendan Abel, J.D., and Robert G. Dluhy, M.D.

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