Comments on: So You’re a Super-Hero in Labor (More on EMTALA in the Marvel Universe)

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:53:10 +0000

Right. Obviously, nobody who has seen Black Bolt scream in pain has lived to tell the tale :-).

It’s one thing not to talk – but to never say “Ouch!” even when being pounded is a whole different level of self-control.

The point is that some supers have a level of power that’s far more dangerous than even an infectious drug-resistant TB patient.

By: Christopher J. Arndt

Christopher J. Arndt — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:12:34 +0000

Since when does Black Bolt scream in pain?

I’ve never seen it!

By: Heimdall

Heimdall — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:56:41 +0000

It’s always possible that the MU version of EMTALA has provisions allowing hospitals to refuse to provide care to superhuman/supernatural beings.

By: Shibia

Shibia — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:31:27 +0000

I can’t imagine Black Bolt in labor. ;)

A solution as it’s Marverl NYC where even old women can be raadioactive would be to let her have her baby in the nuclear bunker far under any other patients.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:03:11 +0000

You’ve described the way the law works in theory.

But in practice, how strictly is that followed?

For example, is it realistic that though the doctor might be able to win the dispute by threatening the law, he’d decide he’s better off in terms of hospital politics to go along, and authorize the transfer paperwork (off-screen) for something vague like “uncertain mutant powers make it inadvisable to continue treatment here, transfer to special equipped facility is indicated”.

“The risk from that patient would much higher than any imagined risk from super-heroes.”

Disagree. Strongly.

Imagine Black Bolt screaming in pain.

By: Kerlyssa

Kerlyssa — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:34:30 +0000

Maybe it’s a terrible hospital. Like, dunno, the one that let a woman bleed to death on the floor of the ER because they thought she was ‘malingering’. Just mopped right around her. People do weird things.

Would seem that the doctor would be more in her face about it, though.