Who cares? The evolution of the legal duty to provide emergency care.

Terry Takewell was a young diabetic. Gasping for breath, he was taken by ambulance to the only local hospital in Fayette County, Tennessee. Takewell was not treated, but instead was carried out the door by a hospital administrator and set on the edge of the parking lot. He was picked up by neighbors and brought home. He died the next day. Terry had no insurance and owed the hospital a lot of money.