Healthcare providers strive to protect life and heal the ill the EMTALA law does hinder the healthcare providers ability to do so. Some “negative implications with regard to quality of care including prolonged patient wait times and suffering for acute problems while other patients are "boarded" in the ED, higher physician and staff stress, less confidentiality when patients are evaluated in nontraditional locations such as a hallway or on the EMS stretcher and increased transport times for ambulance patients due to diversion” (Dietrich, 2008, par. 9). This bill creates overcrowding. Which forces patients to be turned away, while posing breaches in patient confidentiality. On top of this once a patient is stable they can be released. Which
