| Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (, EMTALA) is a United States Act of Congress passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. It requires hospitals and ambulance services to provide care to anyone needing emergency treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act
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| Emergency medicine Emergency medicine is a medical specialty in which a physician receives practical training to provide patients with acute illnesses or injuries which require immediate medical attention. While not usually providing long-term or continuing care, emergency medicine physicians diagnose a variety of illnesses and undertake acute interventions to stabilize the patient. Emergency_medicine
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| Human rights in the United States The United States has a long and established tradition in the area of human rights. Legally, human rights within the United States are those rights defined by the Constitution of the United States and amendments, conferred by treaty, and enacted legislatively through Congress, state legislatures, and plebiscites (state referenda). The Constitution and treaties are generally interpreted by the judicial branch, making it the key Human_rights_in_the_United_States
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| Arthur Kellermann Dr. Arthur L. Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.E.P. (born 1955) is professor and founding chairman of the department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and founding director of the Center for Injury Control at Rollins School of Public Health, a collaborating center for injury and violence prevention of the World Health Organization. Arthur_Kellermann
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| American College of Emergency Physicians American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is the largest organization of emergency physicians in the United States. It was founded in 1968 and is now headquartered in Dallas,Texas.The college exists to support quality emergency medical care and the physicians who provide it. ACEP believes that “quality emergency care is a fundamental right and unobstructed access to emergency services should be available to all patients who perceive the need for emergency services.” American_College_of_Emergency_Physicians
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| Prohibition (drugs)/Archive 1 Talk:Prohibition_(drugs)/Archive_1
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| Health care in the United States Health care in the United States is provided by many separate legal entities. Including private and public spending, more is spent per person on health care in the United States than in any other nation in the world. A study of international health care spending levels published in the health policy journal Health Affairs in the year 2000, found that while the U.S. Health_care_in_the_United_States
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| Emergency physician emergency physician is a physician who works at an emergency department to care for acutely ill patients. The emergency physician is a specialist in advanced cardiac life support (advanced life support in Europe), trauma care such as fractures and soft tissue injuries, and management of other life-threatening situations.In some European countries (e.g. Emergency_physician
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| Medical director emergency medical services a medical director is a physician who provides guidance, leadership, oversight and quality assurance for the practice of local paramedics and EMTs within a predefined area. In North America, medical directors are typically board-certified in emergency medicine. Medical_director
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| Health care in the United States Talk:Health_care_in_the_United_States
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| Rape/Archive 2 Talk:Rape/Archive_2
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| Arguments for and against drug prohibition/point-counterpoint Talk:Arguments_for_and_against_drug_prohibition/point-counterpoint
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| Fellow of American College of Emergency Physicians Fellow_of_American_College_of_Emergency_Physicians
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| Taser safety issues The use of Tasers and similar electroshock weapons as part of routine police work has become a source for controversy in the wake of several deaths attributed to the devices. Taser_safety_issues
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| Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive359 Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive359
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| Health care reform in the United States The debate over health care reform in the United States centers around questions of a right to health care, access, fairness, the quality achieved for the high sums spent, and the sustainability of expenditures that have been rising faster than the level of general inflation and the growth in the economy. Health_care_reform_in_the_United_States
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| APC (Ambulatory Payment Classification) APCs or Ambulatory Payment Classifications are the government's method of paying for facility outpatient services for the Medicare (United States) program. A part of the Federal Balanced Budget Act of 1997 made the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services create a new Medicare "Outpatient Prospective Payment System" (OPPS) for hospital outpatient services -analogous to the Medicare prospective payment system for hospital inpatients known as Diagnosis-related group or DRGs. APC_(Ambulatory_Payment_Classification)
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