Medical Treatment in UK Law
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From ‘Doctor Knows Best’ to Dignity: Placing Adults Who Lack Capacity at the Centre of Decisions About Their Medical Treatment
In 1989, the House of Lords first derived a ‘best interests’ test for the medical treatment of adults who lack capacity from the doctrine of necessity and, now codified, the test continues to apply...
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Doctors as Good Samaritans: Some Empirical Evidence Concerning Emergency Medical Treatment in Britain
This paper reports the results of the first survey of British doctors' attitudes towards the provision of emergency treatment outside the usual confines of a surgery or hospital. The experience and...
- Medical Treatment and the Chain of Causation
- Religious Beliefs and Teenage Refusal of Medical Treatment
- Adolescent Autonomy, Detention for Medical Treatment and Re C
- Medical Treatment — Pragmatism and the Search for Principle
- Mitigation and Refusal of Medical Treatment: Reasonableness and Onus of Proof
- Medical Treatment Authorised under Part IV of the Mental Health Act 1983
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Advance Refusals of Life‐Sustaining Medical Treatment: The Relativity of an Absolute Right
English law gives the competent patient a right to refuse life‐saving treatment, either contemporaneously or in an advance directive. This means that the patient's autonomous choice that in an anti...
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How does online doctor–patient interaction affect online consultation and offline medical treatment?
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors that influence the patients’ intentions to visit doctors face-to-face for consultations from the perspective of online doctor–patient in...
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