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Day: November 25, 2020

Refusal redux: Revisiting debate about adolescent refusal of treatment

Posted on November 25, 2020

By Dominic Wilkinson. Last month, in an emergency hearing, the High court in London heard a case that characterises a familiar problem in medical ethics. A 15 year old adolescent (known as ‘X’) with a long-standing medical condition, sickle cell disease, had a very low blood count and required an urgent blood transfusion. However, X […]

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