Guest Opinion by Sean Vanlandingham, M.D.
When someone comes through the doors of a hospital emergency department, it is often one of the worst days of their life – a heart attack, a stroke, a serious injury, a child struggling to breathe. In those moments, no one is thinking about staffing models or regulations. They are thinking about one thing: Is there a doctor here who can help me right now?
Most Alabamians assume the answer is yes. They would be surprised to learn that, under current law, that assumption is not always correct…