Detained patients and the right to refuse treatment

The right to refuse treatment.

Commentary. 1: The right to refuse treatment.

The author suggests that by providing ventilators (or other equipment) with a mechanism which would automatically switch them off, (thus allowing the patient to die without the intervention of another human being switching the machine off) doctors would somehow be spared the moral dilemma and responsibility of acceding to a patient's request for a life-support system to be withdrawn. This "lega...

The right to refuse treatment: administrative considerations.

The psychiatric administrator tends to view the subject "the right to refu.se treatment" with trepidation, particularly if he is responsible for a public psychiatric hospital to which involuntary patients are committed. It is there that the passing of the patient from one treatment program to another stops. Other administrators representing community out-patient clinics, mental health centers, ...

The right to refuse treatment: legal issues.

Ethical Considerations in Respecting Patient's Autonomy and Right to Refuse Treatment: A case Report

One of the most challenging aspects of treatment is when patient seriously refuses the desired by treating physician. On the other hand, refusing treatment is a condition of the patient's right to be aware, but does such a right also imposes a moral obligation on the treating physician or not? This study discusses the diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosis disease. This article attempts to p...