PATIENT'S FATE.
NO RIGHT TO DECIDE. LONDON, September 12. Protests will be of no avail. If your doctor says that you must go to hospital to have your appendix removed you would be well advised to let him have the last word without any fuss. You may set rather a high value upon your appendix and you may not care for that particular hospital; indeed you may not have a kindly feeling for hospitals at all, and, if you must lose your appendix, you would rather have it done in the privacy of your home. That doesn't matter; the patient has no vote, according to Dr. R. Guthries, the East London coroner, who declared that if a doctor made up his mind to send a patient to hospital, the patient had no right to decide otherwise. If the doctor's instructions were ignored he ought to throw up the case.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 222, 19 September 1929, Page 7
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149PATIENT'S FATE. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 222, 19 September 1929, Page 7
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