2 students may be expelled over inhaler.

[pnwmom]

100. Would you say the same thing if someone's throat was closing up after a bee sting

and someone else didn't share her Epi-pen?

There is a controversy right now over that situation. The school nurse couldn't save the life of a child, because the only Epi-pens in the office were designated for children other than the one who was dying. In that state, at least, someone has proposed a law to address that situation.

But Colorado right now has a Good Samaritan law which should have protected this girl. It would have, if she were an adult -- and the law, as written, doesn't distinguish between adults and children.


13-21-108. Persons rendering emergency assistance exempt from liability. (1) Any person licensed as a physician and surgeon under the laws of the state of Colorado, or anv other person, who in good faith renders emergency care or emergency assistance to a person not presently his patient without compensation at the place of an emergency or accident, including a health care institution as defined in section 13-64-202 (3), shall not be liable for any civil damages for acts or omissions made in good faith as a result of the rendering of such emergency care or emergency assistance during the emergency, unless the acts or omissions were grossly negligent or willful and wanton. This section shall not apply to any person who renders such emergency care or emergency assistance to a patient he is otherwise obligated to cover.