THE DOCTOR'S WORD.
POWERLESS PATIENTS.
LONDON CORONER'S DICTUM.
LONDON, Sept. 10,
"Protests will be of no avail. ]f your doctor says that you must go to hospital to havo 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." The patient has no vote or say in the matter, according to Dr. R. Guthries, the East London coroner, who, using the woids quoted, declared to day that if a doctor made up his mind to send a patient to hospital, the patient had m» right to decido otherwise. If the doctor's instructions were ignored he ought to throw up the case.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20364, 19 September 1929, Page 11
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