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Factors associated with refusal to treat HIV-infected patients: the results of a national survey of dentists in Canada.

American Journal of Public Health, 1999
OBJECTIVES: This study investigated dentists refusal to treat patients who have HIV. METHODS: A survey was mailed to a random sample of all licensed dentists in Canada, with 3 follow-up attempts (n = 6444).
G M McCarthy, J K Macdonald
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Duty to Treat or Right to Refuse?

The Hastings Center Report, 1991
By entering the medical profession, physicians have consented to accept a standard level of risk of infection. In most instances, the risk of contracting HIV does not exceed this level.
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Refusal to treat: can it be justified? A Mount Sinai CPC.

Geriatrics, 1987
D, Meier, L, Libow, J J, Regan, S, Sadin
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Treating against a stated refusal

Nursing
Abstract: Decision-making capacity in health care refers to a person's ability to understand information relevant to a decision, appreciate how the decision affects them, make a choice, and communicate that choice. Capacity is essential in ethics and professional nursing practice because it forms the basis of informed consent.
Jennifer A. Gibson, Tyler Paetkau
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Nurses’ right to refuse to treat: when is it justified?

Nursing Standard, 2020
One of the defining issues of the COVID-19 pandemic is controversy over personal protective equipment (PPE) – whether in relation to shortages, difficulties with supply and fit, or confusion over what should be worn.
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Judge says dentist's refusal to treat patient was illegal.

AIDS policy & law, 1996
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Treat mother too??Failed? psychotherapy of an adolescent with school refusal

Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 1984
The therapy is described of an adolescent who presented to a private consultant pediatrician with school refusal. An initial eclectic approach was used resulting in the patient returning to school. This was followed by a further assessment and the recommendation of psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy for the adolescent together with counseling ...
S, Menahem, A, Cebon
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The refusal to treat: abandonment and AIDS.

Journal of clinical gastroenterology, 1984
In this paper, I have focused on the issue of the clinical gastroenterologist who refuses to evaluate and endoscope the patient with AIDS. The discussion centers around the legal and ethical properties of such a decision, and the legal doctrine of abandonment.
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The Morality of Refusing to Treat HIV‐positive Patients

Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1989
ABSTRACT  Do physicians and nurses have an obligation to treat patients who are HIV‐positive? Although an initial review of the possible sources of such an obligation yields equivocal results, a closer examination reveals a clear obligation to treat. The current risk of job‐caused HIV‐infection is not sufficient to warrant a refusal to treat.
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The right not to be treated or to refuse treatment.

Medicine and law, 1989
The corollary to the right to refuse treatment is the requirement that, in general, informed consent be obtained before treatment. The Declaration of Lisbon recognises this: "The patient has the right to accept or to refuse treatment after receiving adequate information." The information to be given to the patient is of three kinds, but a special ...
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