[5] In general, there are a wide range of regulatory strategies that may be used to ensure people's health and safety.
Doctors have the right to refuse treatment, in the absence of an emergency, when no previous doctor-patient relationship existed.
However, according to EMTALA, doctors cannot discriminate because of disability, abandon a patient, or refuse their services in an emergency.
[8] Medical malpractice is also an area where law and medicine are interconnected, which relates to the standard of care, where custom similar locality rule may apply.
Damages, where the value of life and tort reforms appear to differ, and affirmative defenses, within the doctrine of informed consent, where waivers cannot suffice.