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their skills during an in-flight emergency, 2 and Gendreau and DeJohn concluded that “fear of liability should not prompt [physician] reluctance to offer assistance,” 5 the law still does not shield healthcare workers from the nuisance of being named in a lawsuit for providing assistance. For example, one physician reported that she had been “summoned to appear in both federal and state courts” as a Postgrad Year 1 surgery resident after helping to perform CPR on an airplane. 8 Medical trainees typically do not carry individual malpractice liability insurance; they

FAA may be overtaken by events in the marketplace.” 4 They noted that on July 1, 1997, American Airlines had placed defibrillators aboard all of its commercial jets, trained 2300 pursers to use the device, and was pressing Congress for a federal Good Samaritan law to indemnify medical professionals from malpractice suits. However, other airlines began to follow American’s lead. US Airways would become the second U.S. domestic airline to begin carrying portable cardiac defibrillators on some of its planes and the first to install hand-held heart monitors that