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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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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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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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[Patients refusal to be treated, the problem of Jehovah's witnesses].

Presse medicale (Paris, France : 1983), 2004
The principle of respecting the patient's wishes is an international medical principle, found in several texts. In France, it was recalled in the 1994 Civil Code concerning bioethical laws and has recently been included in the Public health Code (law concerning patient's rights dated March 4, 2002).
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Drug refusal among schizophrenic patients treated in the community

Journal of Mental Health, 1997
Variable present and historical rates of compliance with antipsychotic treatment were found among 54 patients with DSM III R schizophrenia treated in the community. Drug refusal was found to be significantly associated with more severe positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia, lower insight, and also with low knowledge of treatment and low pre ...
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