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  • AAEM and AAEM/RSA Position Statement Against Federal Regulation
    On Friday, the Trump administration issued a regulation that excludes transgender status from the legal definition of sex discrimination in healthcare. This regulation allows institutions and individual professionals who provide healthcare services to legally exclude transgender people from receivi …

    Joint Statements, Position Statements, Tort Reform

  • Definition of Negligence for EMTALA-Mandated Emergency Care
    The American Academy of Emergency Medicine (hereinafter AAEM or the Academy) supports an increased level of scienter for EMTALA mandated care.1  Specifically, AAEM supports state laws that require plaintiffs to prove gross negligence or recklessness, by clear and convincing evidence, in cases a …

    EMTALA, Position Statements, Tort Reform

  • AAEM Position Statement on Ethical Expert Conduct and Testimony
    The American Academy of Emergency Medicine believes the following principles to be essential to the ethical conduct of an expert offering opinions or testimony in medical legal matters. Violation of these principles constitutes a violation of the Academy’s Ethics policy and may be subject to sancti …

    Ethics, Position Statements, Tort Reform

  • AAEM White Paper on Tort Reform
    AAEM White Paper on Tort Reform A Policy Paper of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine J Emerg Med 2006; 30:473-475 Larry D. Weiss, M.D., J.D. Albert J. Lauro Professor of Medicine Louisiana State University School of Medicine Department of Medicine, Section of Emergency Medicine 15 …

    Position Statements, Tort Reform

  • AAEM Plaintiff Experts Policy
    Whereas, membership on the Board of Directors of AAEM requires that the Board members serve the interests of the membership above their own interests, therefore be it RESOLVED that Members of the Board of Directors of AAEM shall refrain from giving expert testimony against a member of AAEM while ser …

    Other, Tort Reform