B y the time he checked into the Saint John Regional Hospital on Mar. 31, 1994, Joshua
Walker of Quispamsis, NB, had already made up his mind. While in Admitting, one of the first …

One of the most difficult medical legal problems confronting hospitals and other health care
providers is the treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses who are in need of a blood transfusion but …

Patients with significant medical problems who refuse some aspects of their medical care
present medicolegal and management problems for their physicians. The selective refusal of …

A t 1: 15 pm on June 30, 1979, Georgette Malette, then 57, was rushed into the emergency
room at the Kirk-land and District Hospital in Kirkland Lake, Ont. The Rouyn, Que., woman …

May an adult Jehovah's Witness be compelled against his religious beliefs to submit to a
blood transfusion considered medically necessary to save his life? The case decisions …

What are the legal obligations and liabilities of a physician when a patient, in anticipation of
medical or surgical treatment, demands that he not be given a blood transfusion? In an …

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that a human must not sustain his life with another creature's
blood, and they recognize no distinction" between taking blood into the mouth and taking it …

No serious student of constitutional law can fail to be impressed at the efforts made in the
past by Jehovah's Witnesses to clarify the meaning of various state and federal laws when …

Refusal of blood transfusion by a Jehovah's Witness is no longer a rare occurrence. What
are the physician's responsibilities in caring for such a patient? What is the law in this matter …

Ask an American judge or doctor what he (or she) knows about the medical beliefs of
Jehovah's Witnesses. The response will probably be that Witnesses devoutly refuse to …