Originally Posted by
ylwae
I'll defer to someone who has legal expertise, but a requirement to attend to anyone in need of medical attention, anywhere in the world, by virtue of membership in the QCP and being aboard a flag carrier, strikes me as an extraordinary and unreasonable burden of care.
LIke I said, the flag-carrier thing is an interesting question for a law school debate or exam @:-)
However, membership in the QCP (along with Quebec civil and professional law as well as the provincial charter of rights) does indeed create certain duties for those in the medical profession. Not necessarily the case for physicians elsewhere; I can only speak to Quebec legal issues.
I think we're waaaay OT now....I was more interested in the poor barking doggies and the silently suffering lobsters.
