Refusal to Treat - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[Withholding and withdrawal decisions in oncology: legal frame and practice]

29 Jun 2009 Whereas medicine is progressing in illness treatment that used to be incurable, physicians are still faced with treatment failure. Hippocrates used to say: "primum non nocere" [1]. When the patient cannot expect benefit from potentially aggressive ... Read more...

From reproductive choice to reproductive justice.

5 May 2009 Since the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development, the human rights movement has embraced the concept of reproductive rights. These are often pursued, however, by means to which objection is taken. Some conservative political and ... Read more...

Alleged medical abandonment in chronic opioid analgesic therapy: case report.

20 Apr 2009 OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this medicolegal case report were the following: 1) present details of a chronic pain patient (CPP) on chronic opioid analgesic therapy (COAT), who diverted her opioids and was terminated from treatment, and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Refusal to Treat - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Withholding and withdrawal decisions in oncology: legal frame and practice] 29 Jun 2009
• From reproductive choice to reproductive justice. 5 May 2009
• Alleged medical abandonment in chronic opioid analgesic therapy: case report. 20 Apr 2009
• Bush administration issued, and Obama administration seeks to rescind, 'conscience clause' regulation. 30 Mar 2009
• Conscientious objection gone awry--restoring selfless professionalism in medicine. 23 Mar 2009
• Conscientious objectors. Obama plan to rescind rule draws Catholic criticism. 21 Mar 2009
• Legal protection and limits of conscientious objection: when conscientious objection is unethical. 27 Feb 2009
• Terminating the physician-patient relationship. 27 Feb 2009
• Medical malpractice matters: medical record M & Ms. 27 Feb 2009
• [The role of law in protection from violent and abusive patients] 27 Feb 2009
• Welcome news in the Sentosa nurses case. 30 Jan 2009
• Stand up to homophobia. 30 Jan 2009
• Legal briefing: medical futility and assisted suicide. 30 Dec 2008
• The fiduciary obligation of physicians to "just say no" if an "informed" patient demands services that are not medically indicated. 30 Dec 2008
• What is patient abandonment? 30 Dec 2008
• Migration and the human right to health. 30 Dec 2008
• Bush administration issues rule to protect health workers who object to medical procedures. 21 Dec 2008
• First amendment -- California Supreme Court holds that free exercise of religion does not give fertility doctors right to deny treatment to lesbians. -- North Coast Women's Care Medical Group, Inc. v. San Diego County Superior Court, 189 P.3d 959 (Cal. 2008). 29 Nov 2008
• Healthcare responsibilities and conscientious objection. 27 Nov 2008
• Morals, medicine and geography. 2 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Refusal to Treat'

Definition: Refusal of the health professional to initiate or continue treatment of a patient or group of patients. The refusal can be based on any reason. The concept is differentiated from PATIENT REFUSAL OF TREATMENT see TREATMENT REFUSAL which originates with the patient and not the health professional.

Descriptor UI: D016079

Alternative terms: Refusal to Treat; Physician Refusal to Treat; Patient Abandonment; Abandonment, Patient;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethics; legislation & jurisprudence; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: N04.590.233.727.605; N05.300.100.675;

History Note: 91

Technical Notes: refusal of a health professional to treat a patient: do not confuse with PATIENT REFUSAL OF TREATMENT see TREATMENT REFUSAL