In Burditt v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, EMTALA was violated by a physician when he ordered a woman with dangerously high blood pressure (210/130) & in active labor with ruptured membranes transferred from the emergency department of one hospital to another hospital 170 miles away.
1. What are the main issues in this case?
2. What ethical theories, principles, & values are of concern? Describe them.