Do Minors Have The Right To Refuse Medical Treatment

What Rights Do Minors Have to Refuse Medical Treatment?

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in Pennsylvania may refuse medical care when the minor is not suffering from a life threatening illness. Perhaps Pennsylvania would allow a 17 year old who displays a level …

Do Patients Have the Right to Refuse Treatment?

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Informed Consent. The right to refuse treatment goes hand in hand with …

When Can Parents Deny Medical Care to Children

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However, this legal right to refuse medical care does not extend to their children if it endangers the child's welfare. Under the law, children are entitled to protection and …

Minors’ Refusal of Life-Saving Therapies - American …

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Minors’ Refusal of Life-Saving Therapies. Valarie Blake, JD, MA. Citation. PDF. Altmetric. Rare but challenging are those cases in which teenagers, …

Parents - Ethics, conflict and medical treatment for children

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While adult patients are generally thought to have an absolute right to refuse medical treatment for themselves, we don’t usually think that parents can refuse all …

Challenging Teenagers' Right to Refuse Treatment

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Minors' rights in medical decision making - PubMed

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In the past, minors were not considered legally capable of making medical decisions and were viewed as incompetent because of their age. The authority to consent or refuse …

When Should Minors Make Their Own Medical …

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Some states, such as California and Delaware, have laws in place that allow children as young as 12 to receive treatment without parental consent when it comes to things like vaccinations and...

End- of- life decisions and minors: do minors have the right to refuse ...

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The logical corollary of the right to informed consent is the right to informed refusal. A competent adult patient also has the right to refuse medical treatment by simply withholding or withdrawing his consent. A physician who starts medical treatment without the informed consent of his patient will be held liable for battery.

Children's Medical Treatment and Parents Beliefs

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Courts may be more likely to step in if the treatment that parents are refusing for their child is well-established, such as insulin for diabetes or antibiotics for meningitis. “You can’t have...