91. A liability waiver is not the same as an AMA form.
A liability waiver releases the resort from liability. It is not in itself an AMA and thus would not have prevented the first medics from speaking with her.
Your background is as a medic, I realize that. But mine is in informed consent issues -- or, in this case, informed "dissent." She couldn't have refused medical advice because no qualified medical person assessed her condition and informed her of the risk of declining treatment.
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