The discovery of the Tuskegee experiment in which doctors withheld treatment from 399 African-American men also revived the tale of the night doctors.

In 1996 he filed a grievance with the N.B.A., contending that the team and its doctors withheld information about the severity of his knee injury.

In America, most states permit doctors to withhold extraordinary measures to prolong the life of a patient who wishes to die, but not to cause death.

He said he believed the courts would recognize that the regulations require doctors to withhold information about abortion and not permit such suits to go forward.

(There are no statistics on how often doctors withhold the drugs. )

But those orders do not otherwise allow doctors to withhold medical care.

The doctor may withhold all or part of the report from you if he thinks that it would be in your interest, or that of others, to do so.

Knowing better, especially because he could see that the doctor, out of compassion, was withholding the final hopelessness, the husband still coaxed and hoped.

It maintains that Captain Edmondson has supervised a system in which doctors sometimes withhold medicine from prisoners if they are deemed not cooperative enough with their interrogators.

They deny that the doctors withhold necessary care.