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Patient Dumping in the Federal Courts: Expanding EMTALA without Preempting State Malpractice Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2021

Samir C. Jain  and
Shawn S. Hoyt
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Recent Developments in Law and Policy
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Law, Medicine and Healthcare , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , Fall 1992 , pp. 249 - 252
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© 1992 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics

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