Do you think Connie actually left any sort of medical information/release in case anything happened to Lawrence? Because, really, no doctor is going to set it and put on a cast without the parent there!
Nonsense. Every emergency department has procedures for treating children without the parents, at least for the things that must be done immediately. And in the real world of a small town 20 years ago (as opposed to a modern big city), the ‘in loco parentis’ of a family friend sitting the kid would not even have been questioned. Even today, they might KEEP the kid till the parent showed up, and there may be a followup from Children’s Services to verify the kid-sitting arrangements, but they would still treat the kid.
csscougar said, about 13 hours ago
Do you think Connie actually left any sort of medical information/release in case anything happened to Lawrence? Because, really, no doctor is going to set it and put on a cast without the parent there!
Nonsense. Every emergency department has procedures for treating children without the parents, at least for the things that must be done immediately. And in the real world of a small town 20 years ago (as opposed to a modern big city), the ‘in loco parentis’ of a family friend sitting the kid would not even have been questioned. Even today, they might KEEP the kid till the parent showed up, and there may be a followup from Children’s Services to verify the kid-sitting arrangements, but they would still treat the kid.