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Refusal to Treat

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… 
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2013
2013
th E 'D ifficult' P ati E nt -
Doctors have both legal and ethical responsibilities towards their patients. Is it ever acceptable to refuse to treat a patient… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Legal briefs in dental bias case raise issues pivotal to epidemic.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in March that could profoundly alter the way courts, employers, and the medical… 
1998
1998
[Withholding medical care as a physical injury--refusal to treat from the viewpoint of the pediatrician. Special aspects of therapy in children].
  • H. Helge
  • Zeitschrift fur arztliche Fortbildung und…
  • 1998
  • Corpus ID: 41499049
1998
1998
Bragdon vs Abbott: US Supreme Court set to re-examine HIV as a disability.
Changing perceptions about HIV/AIDS has resulted in advances in public policy and law, particularly involving the Americans… 
1996
1996
Judge says dentist's refusal to treat patient was illegal.
U.S. District Judge Morton A. Brody ruled that dentist [name removed]'s written policy of refusing to treat patients with HIV… 
1994
1994
Nurse's termination for refusal to treat AIDS patient upheld by federal court. Armstrong v. Flowers Hospital, Inc.
1993
1993
What are we teaching about indigent patients?
  • D. L. Hartsuch
  • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA…
  • 1993
  • Corpus ID: 6334762
To the Editor. —In the article "What Are We Teaching About Indigent Patients?,"1Miles is highly critical of a private hospital's… 
1990
1990
Health care workers: refusal to treat prohibited under new Wisconsin statute.
1988
1988
Some medical-legal aspects of AIDS: the refusal to treat.
1981
1981
Legal case briefs for nurses. CA: neonatal death: heparin overdose? AZ: errant M.D.: refusal to treat patient.
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