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I just finished reading your story about the Chinese toddler's death. No one helped her, partly from fear of being blamed for the accident. What protection does Oregon have? Does it have a Good Samaritan law? Should we just call for help and stand by? Thanks for your always wonderful info! — A. Ganoe We aim to please, Alex, and your compliments mean the world to us. But on to your question. Lt. Bob Hansen of Medford police said Oregon does have a Good Samaritan Law, which states that those rendering aid are protected while giving assistance, as long as it's within the training they have. Those with CPR training, for example, are allowed to perform CPR. "But you can't do open heart surgery. You can't go beyond what you're trained to do," Hansen said. "As long as you were doing it with the intent to try and help the person and you weren't doing it beyond what a reasonable person would do." Oregon's Good Samaritan Law refers to an individual providing aid as a "medically trained person." That can refer to a person with any degree of skill levels, from licensed doctors down to individuals who have completed CPR training with the American Red Cross. The law reads: "No person may maintain an action for damages for injury, death or loss that results from acts or omissions of the medically trained person while rendering emergency medical assistance unless it is alleged and proved by the complaining party that the acts or omissions violate the standards of reasonable care under the circumstances in which the emergency medical assistance was rendered." Send questions to "Since You Asked," Mail Tribune Newsroom, P.O. Box 1108, Medford, OR 97501; by fax to 541-776-4376; or by e-mail to [email protected]. We're sorry, but the volume of questions received prevents us from answering all of them.