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Old Oct 29, 2023 | 8:15 pm
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Originally Posted by ani90
Once one accepts any form of compensation from the airline - be it miles, a bottle of champagne, an upgrade to come sit in business class for rest of the flight or whatever - then one loses indemnity under Good Samaritan laws at it is no longer a good Samaritan act (even if it started that way) as to be such the services must have been provided without any form of compensation.
Originally Posted by HaleiwaFlyer
AAFP liability article

Take aways from my research on this topic and as a physician with my own biases:

6. Don’t ask for any compensation of any kind if you do offer assistance. Otherwise, good samiritan laws do not apply.
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Hadn't thought of compensation and impact on GS. Fair point.

Also, just interesting note. Had flight earlier this year where the UA FA was also MD. Part time FA with UA. I'd bet that's not a common background amongst most UA FA's
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