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The “Right” to refuse treatment

Medicine, Science and the Law, 2022
The “right” of an adult patient with capacity to refuse treatment has been very well recognized by the courts over the years. Recently, it was the central issue in this recent case, PH (by his litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) v Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board ([2022] EWCOP 16).
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Refusal of Treatment

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1986
The decision regarding refusal of treatment ultimately rests with competent adult patients. When the elderly patients is an inadequate or incompetent decision-maker, in order to protect the interests of the patient, the physician should have some knowledge of the way decisions are and ought to be made, particularly when a decision to forgo life ...
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Refusal of treatment

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 1979
Thirteen cases of childhood malignancy are described in which treatment was refused. Four groups are presented: 1) the parents refused treatment for a child with a good prognosis, 2) parents refused treatment for a child with a poor prognosis, 2) the patients refused treatment, and 4) child abuse or neglect occurred in conjunction with refusal of ...
S B, Lansky, T, Vats, N U, Cairns
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Treatment refusal in adolescents

Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 1986
Abstract While treatment refusal is a relatively uncommon problem, its occurrence creates a difficult situation for all involved. Clinicians must recognize all the factors that influence adolescent decision-making and understand their relative importance to the individual patient. Attempts to convince the teenager to accept therapy should be based on
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Consent and Refusal of Treatment

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1993
Clearly, a multitude of potential consent problems can exist for the emergency physician. It is difficult at times to balance the concepts of patient autonomy with the desire to provide optimal medical care. Experienced emergency physicians should be able to individualize the type of consent needed in a particular situation, based on a clinical ...
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Patient refusal of treatment in obstetrics

Seminars in Perinatology, 2003
During the later half of the previous century, Clinical Ethics evolved from the iconoclastic and murky realm of philosophical dissertation into a practical and useful discipline to be applied to clinical dilemmas occurring in everyday practice. We have explored a brief exposition of prevailing ethical theories that are most commonly recognized.
James J, Finnerty, Christian A, Chisholm
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Refusal of treatment during pregnancy

Clinics in Perinatology, 2003
A survey of maternal-fetal medicine fellowship directors in the 1980s found that many supported coercive treatment of pregnant women for the sake of their potential children. To examine whether legal, social, and medical developments since then have led to changes in practice or attitudes about this issue, we surveyed current directors of maternal ...
Sarah F, Adams, Mary B, Mahowald, Janet, Gallagher   +2 more
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Consent to Treatment and Refusal of Treatment by Minors

Collegian, 2000
L e a r n i n g O b j e c t i v e s battery,so that when patients are "touched After reading this article you will be able to: against their will, that becomes in law bat1. I d e n t i f y w h e n p a t i e n t s m a y t ake tery" (Wallace, 1995, p . 52).
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Management of Refusal of Medical Treatment

The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 1986
As patients increasingly refuse medical and surgical treatment, the physician's response to this challenge to the healing-helping role is often extremely negative. Even though refusal may be felt by the patient as the only way to regain a measure of autonomy or control, such a response may have more to do with characteristic coping styles or ...
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Suicide Attempts and Treatment Refusals

Hastings Center Report, 2010
It is now well established that competent patients have a legal right to refuse life-sustaining treatment. When patients are unable to make contemporaneous medical choices, the law supports honoring treatment refusals expressed in advance directives. In contrast, just three states permit physician-assisted suicide, and their laws cover only patients ...
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