USA Today reports "Laws aimed at breaking legal hurdles that prevented hundreds of doctors and nurses from volunteering to help Hurricane Katrina victims in 2005 are gaining momentum in states from Oregon to Pennsylvania." The Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act (pdf) "would allow doctors, nurses, pharmacists, coroners, emergency medical technicians and veterinarians who aren't licensed in states struck by disaster to get quick authorization to offer medical help."
Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act.
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