Sec. 2.6. "Emergency" means a medical condition that manifests itself by acute symptoms of such severity, including severe pain, that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected by a prudent lay person who possesses an average knowledge of health and medicine to: (1) place an individual's health in serious jeopardy; (2) result in serious impairment to the individual's bodily functions; or (3) result in serious dysfunction of a bodily organ or part of the individual.
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