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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

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Recent Developments in Law and Policy
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© 1992 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics

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