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Volume 339:928 September 24, 1998 Number 13
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Requests for a Physician's Help during Airline Flights

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To the Editor: I recently received promotional material from the frequent-flyer program of American Airlines touting the fact that all its passenger jets are now equipped with cardiac defibrillators and other materials that will enable medically qualified passengers to administer what is, in effect, advanced cardiac life support. I often fly from Boston to London, and I have now responded to five requests for "any physician to make himself known to a member of the cabin staff." In two instances I assessed passengers who were intoxicated from alcohol served to them during the flight, one of whom had sustained a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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