"competent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The law allows mentally competent patients who are terminally ill to ask their doctors for lethal drugs.
- In the Netherlands today it is common for competent patients who regard their suffering as intolerable to request assistance in dying.
- A competent adult patient is free to decide ... not to have a blood transfusion.
- Nevertheless, lower courts have increasingly held that a competent patient does have the right to refuse any treatment for himself.
- Some physicians say euthanasia is a rational choice for competent patients who wish to die to escape unbearable suffering.
- They believe that any competent terminally-ill patient should have the right to choose death or refuse life-saving treatment.
- Doctors in 12 states can now prescribe lethal drugs for competent, dying patients, but this should not go unregulated.
- Self-monitoring and self-management are safe options for competent patients, though their practice varies.
- Ms B was a competent but paralysed, ventilator-dependent patient, and she won the right to have the ventilator turned off.
- In general, ambulance squads are unable to contravene the wishes of a mentally competent patient.
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