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    STUDIA BIOETHICA - Issue no. 1-2 / 2016  
         
  Article:   LEGAL REGULATIONS ON PATIENT’S RIGHT TO REFUSE MEDICAL TREATMENT.

Authors:  MÁRIA RAJKA, MARIA ALUAȘ.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  Refusing treatments, interventions by a patient is a reality of medical practice, which often leads to ethical dilemmas because of the conflict between the duty of the physician to treat the patient and the patient s right to self-determination. The topic is important and actual, because the patient of the XXI century tends to decide and act autonomously, much more pronounced than their predecessors, and coordinates doctor-patient relationship are redesigned and based on other criteria than the classic ones. Thus, it needs a better description, capacity for analysis and synthesis information and arguments in order to know how is best to proceed and to identify points unclear or problematic. The aim of this paper is to present and to analyze how patient''''''''s right to autonomy is implemented in international and national legal regulations in force, including the right to refuse treatment.

Keywords: treatments refusal, autonomy, informed consent, informed refusal
 
         
     
         
         
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