Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

Any licensed physician and
surgeon shall be conclusively presumed to be qualified to undertake and to
furnish any emergency medical or surgical care and treatment, regardless of
the specialty training or skills which might otherwise be preferred for care
and treatment of the particular patient, whenever, in the good faith judgment
of such physician and surgeon, the condition and best interests of the patient
require such physician and surgeon to undertake such care and treatment, and,
in the absence of gross negligence under the existing circumstances, no
physician so proceeding nor any hospital where such care and treatment is
provided shall be held liable in any civil action arising out of the
furnishing of such emergency care and treatment.
Nothing in this act shall be deemed to require any physician to undertake
to or to furnish medical care and treatment, whether on an emergency basis or
otherwise, to any person requesting or presented for such care and treatment,
nor shall any such physician be held liable in any civil action by reason of
his refraining from the furnishing of such care and treatment or referring the
same to a specialist or other physician believed by him to be more uniquely or
appropriately experienced and qualified. Neither shall any physician
responding to any request for emergency care be held liable in any civil
action by reason of failure to so respond with any greater promptness than may
be reasonably required or expected, under the existing circumstances, of
physicians and surgeons practicing in the particular community where such care
and treatment is to be furnished.

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