Christopher Doig and Ellen Burgess have carefully and accurately researched the rights of
adolescents to accept or refuse life-sustaining treatment. 1 Pediatricians, family physicians …

© 2000 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors and hypothesize or predict potential
consequences of actions. According to Piaget, apart from inexperience, most individuals 14 …

There is a longstanding assumption that parents act in the best interest of their children. As
such, current standards require that healthcare providers obtain the informed permission of …

Guidelines Nancy MP King, JD, and Alan W. Cross, MD From the Departments of Social
Medicine and Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill …

With infants and very young children there is no question that they lack competence for all
health care decisionmaking; perhaps, there might be no controversy as well that an …

There is consensus among scholars writing in bioethics, medicine, and the law, that
adolescents ought to participate in health care decision making about themselves. There is …

In their effort to articulate an approach to “optimizing pediatric participation in medical
decision making,” Olszewski and Goldkind (2018) draw parallels from the notion of assent …

This case is less about religious freedom and more about the weight to be given a child's
refusal of medical treatment when she is under the age of sixteen years, has the “capacity” to …

Making decisions about receiving or refusing medical diagnosis and treatment continues to
challenge health care providers, legislators, lawyers and judges, ethicists, patients, and …

" It is important that we allow children to exercise selfdetermination in treatment situations
whenever their capacities, the circumstances, and the law allow it. But it is just as important …