"treatment" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The family will terminate medical treatment for financial reasons.
- Usually, decisions about terminating medical treatment are made by doctors, acting on any wishes the patient has expressed, in consultation with the patient's family.
- The ruling set up procedures the office must follow once a request is made to terminate life-support treatment.
- The decision said the existence of "a constitutionally recognized right to die" had been signaled by the Supreme Court, once in a 1990 ruling that allowed patients to terminate unwanted medical treatment.
- It is my understanding that the Cruzan case is about terminating medical treatment, which would result in Ms. Cruzan's dying, not about intervening to kill her.
- Many state courts have invoked the right to privacy in finding constitutional protection for the right to terminate medical treatment.
- In the Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health case, the Supreme Court held that the patient had a right of privacy to terminate medical treatment.
- Although declared brain dead a few hours later, he was kept on life support until his father arrived from Sweden late the next day and his parents gave their permission to terminate treatment.
- And it is the doctors who, despite the financial penalties their actions incur, often ask for ethics committee help in terminating futile treatment.
- For example, we accept the right of proxies to terminate life-sustaining treatment, despite the obvious potential for abuse, because the reasons for doing so outweigh the risks.
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