DrVirgo
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In which of the following cases can the parents refuse treatment for their child and WHY?
1. Child with ALL and parents refuse traditional chemo/meds without which the child will die.
2. Child with ALL, no meds are working, doctor offers an experimental treatment. Without treatment, the child will die.
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| cirus
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a doctor doesn't have the right to try experimental meds without parents consent even in a fatal disease for the chil
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| DrVirgo
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Right... Rule is that parents cannot withhold life or limbsaving treatment. So in the case of lifethreatening, emergency, cancer, with approved standard treatment, the doctor must treat even if the parents refuse...
BUT if the therapy or treatment is experimental or results are not sure, then parents CAN refuse to treat even if it means the child may die, and we have to accept that decision. -This means no court order or no consulting hospital ethics committee... Just accept, discharge or whatever choice sounds like that.
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Put something in mind, no therapy has sure results, but if it is approved for this disease by the FDA, then it should be given even without gaurdian approval
First get a court order (unless an emergency like rupture ovarian cyst), then ttt.
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