A PATIENT’S FATE
NO RIGHT TO DECIDE IT LONDON, Kept. 11. Protests will .he of no avail. If your doctor says that you must go to hospital to have your, appendix removed you would he welt advised /to let him have the last word. witliout any fuss. You may set rather a high value ypon your appendix and you may not care for that particular hospital; indeed you may not have a kindly feeling for hospitals at all, arid, if you must lose your appendix, you would rather have it done in the privacy of your home. That does not matter; the patient has no vote, according to Dr. R. Guthries, the East London coroner, who declared to-day that if a doctor made up his mind to send a patient to hospital, the patient had no right to decide otherwise- L tho doctor’s instructions were ignored he ought to throw up the case.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 7
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