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6691463

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-2-14
pubmed:abstractText
A competent patient has the right to refuse any medical intervention. However, hospitalized patients who refuse treatment sometimes find their competency challenged. The author describes the grounds for deciding that an elderly woman who resisted amputation "lacked capacity" to refuse the intervention, so that custody was conditionally awarded to a state social service department. Questions are raised about the evaluation process. The author suggests that the standard for finding a patient not competent to refuse treatment should be no less than generalized incompetence, including clear evidence that a patient is uninformable on emotionally neutral issues and cognitively incapable of making ordinary decisions on matters unrelated to the crisis at hand.
pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0002-953X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
141
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
53-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
Compassion, control, and decisions about competency.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't