O.C.G.A.
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
(a) To enhance the provision of emergency medical care, each ambulance service shall be required to have a medical adviser. The adviser shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in this state and subject to approval by the medical consultant of the Emergency Health Section of the Department of Public Health. Ambulance services unable to obtain a medical adviser, due to unavailability or refusal of physicians to act as medical advisers, may request the district health director or his or her designee to act as medical adviser until the services of a physician are available.
(b) The duties of the medical adviser shall be to provide medical direction and training for the ambulance service personnel in conformance with acceptable emergency medical practices and procedures.
(c) This Code section shall not apply to any county having a population under 12,000 according to the United States decennial census of 1970 or any such future census.
History
Code 1933, § 88-3118, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1170, § 1A; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-36/HB 228; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 6-1/HB 214.
Annotations
Cross references. - Licensing of physicians, § 43-34-20 et seq.
Law reviews. - For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 147 (2011).
Notes of Decisions
Baxter v. Fulton-DeKalb Hosp. Auth., 764 F. Supp. 1510 (N.D. Ga. 1991).
· cites it 2× “” In this position Slovis serves as the medical advisor to the Grady EMS pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 31-11-50. His duties as medical advisor are subject to state law and the approval of the medical consultant of the Emergency Health Section of the Division of Physical Health of the…”
Metro Ambulance Servs., Inc. v. Joray Anthony Wright (Ga. Ct. App. 2025).
· cites it 2× “” 20 because these procedures and protocols involved the application of professional judgment, we discern no error in the trial court’s failure to give this instruction. The specific regulations cited in the instruction are broad admonitions to comply with procedures and…”
— 31-11-50(b) — 1 case
Metro Ambulance Servs., Inc. v. Joray Anthony Wright (Ga. Ct. App. 2025).
“” 20 because these procedures and protocols involved the application of professional judgment, we discern no error in the trial court’s failure to give this instruction. The specific regulations cited in the instruction are broad admonitions to comply with procedures and…”
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