Example sentences of "[noun] to treatment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither an acute complication of gall stone disease nor a non-functioning gall bladder , if caused by a stone impacted in Hartmann 's pouch , was regarded as a contraindication to treatment . |
| 2 | Unlike other non-operative treatments , a non-functioning gall bladder with a stone impacted in Hartmann 's pouch is not a contraindication to treatment and stones were removed successfully in 15 of 16 patients with a return of cystic duct patency . |
| 3 | With reference to treatment involving the prescribing of other drugs , the majority of respondents expressed concern about the addictive nature of the drugs themselves . |
| 4 | In addition , as Caro ( May 29 , p 1381 ) points out , we do not know if the baseline embolic risks and responses to treatment of people with AF in the community would match those seen in highly selected study populations . |
| 5 | The other is the right to treatment as an equal , or , as Dworkin puts it ‘ the right to equal concern and respect in the political decision about how these goods and opportunities are to be distributed ’ ( Dworkin , 1978 , p. 273 ) . |
| 6 | Since everyone has a right to treatment whether they have been contributors or not , it is difficult to justify . |
| 7 | He 's in no doubts of his right to treatment |
| 8 | There is very considerable force in the submission that once a refusal to treatment is expressed and held to be valid and binding on the hospital , as I have found , then that consent or that refusal should continue to prevail and dictate the outcome of this case . |
| 9 | SIR — We are concerned about one of the proposals in the Law Commission 's consultation paper on mentally incapacitated adults and decision-making ( May 1 , p 1143 ) — namely , ‘ … consent or refusal to treatment may be valid if the treatment and consequences are broadly understood when expressed in simple terms ’ . |
| 10 | Yes indeed , I mean many argue that in fact a law was n't required , and that the common law , as it 's developed and grown and , for example , in the Quinlan case , says that the withdrawal of treatment , the withholding of consent to treatment , is entirely lawful ; and some might argue that , by giving a law like this , which is rather narrowly drawn , you 've taken away a lot ; in other words , a doctor will feel , this I can do , but the other I ca n't do . |
| 11 | In the light of the above , provided the doctor is of the opinion that the patient 's mental faculties are such as to make his refusal of treatment unreliable , I take the view that , in the case of an incompetent child , if there is a parent or guardian who can be consulted , the doctor can rely on their consent to treatment , despite the expressed wishes of the patient . |
| 12 | The Medical Defence Union , in its pamphlet entitled ‘ consent to Treatment ’ , advises that ‘ a patient who is compulsorily detained under the Mental Health Act must submit to treatment for his mental disorder whether or not he agrees ’ , but that ‘ if a compulsorily detained patient develops a condition unrelated to his mental disorder , then only such treatment as is immediately necessary to preserve his life and health may be given without his consent . ’ |
| 13 | Dicta of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 , 41 , C.A. and in In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 22 , 26 , C.A. applied . |
| 14 | R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) , In re [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 ; [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 592 ; [ 1991 ] 4 All E.R. |
| 15 | What the court can do is to withhold consent to treatment of which it disapproves and it can express its approval of other treatment proposed by the authority and its doctors . ’ |
| 16 | The other is In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 26 where he said : ‘ No doctor can be required to treat a child , whether by the court in the exercise of its wardship jurisdiction , by its parents , by the child or anyone else . |
| 17 | It is said that the views which I expressed in my judgments in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 and In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 26 which are relevant to this were obiter and did not receive the express assent of those sitting with me . |
| 18 | I did then , and do now , agree with what is there stated as well as with the passages to the like effect in In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 22 , 26 . |
| 19 | In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , C.A. considered . |
| 20 | R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) , In re [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 ; [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 592 ; [ 1991 ] 4 All E.R. 177 , C.A. |
| 21 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 June 1992 W. appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the High Court had no jurisdiction , or alternatively no jurisdiction should be exercised , to overrule the refusal of a competent minor aged 16 to undergo medical treatment ; ( 2 ) section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 should have been applied ; ( 3 ) the judge had erred in applying observations of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 which were erroneous ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly found that in respect of the Children Act 1989 the minor 's right of refusal was limited to the stage of assessment ; and ( 5 ) the judge had failed to have sufficient regard to the medical evidence against transferring W. , to the advantages of not moving her and to her wishes and his decision was plainly wrong . |
| 22 | In In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , this court was concerned with a 15-year-old girl and accordingly the meaning and effect of section 8 was not directly in issue . |
| 23 | Essentially what all are saying is that a right to consent to medical treatment , whether required under the common law ( see Gillick 's case ) or under statute ( section 8 ) , must and does carry with it a right not only to refuse consent to treatment , but to refuse the treatment itself . |
| 24 | If the parental right terminates , it would follow that , apart from the court , the only person competent to consent would be the child and a refusal of consent to treatment would indirectly constitute an effective veto on the treatment itself . |
| 25 | Thorpe J. having held that ‘ there is no doubt at all that J. is a child of sufficient understanding to make an informed decision , ’ I shall assume that , so far as the common law is concerned , Lord Scarman would have decided that neither the local authority nor W. 's aunt , both of whom had parental responsibilities , could give consent to treatment which would be effective in the face of W. 's refusal of consent . |
| 26 | The purpose of consent to treatment |
| 27 | The wording of subsection ( 1 ) shows quite clearly that it is addressed to the legal purpose of legal effect of consent to treatment , namely , to prevent such treatment constituting in law a trespass to the person , and that it does so by making the consent of a 16- or 17-year-old as effective as if he were ‘ of full age . ’ |
| 28 | The report , in paragraph 480 , records that all the professional bodies which gave evidence recommended that patients aged between 16 and 18 should be able to give an effective consent to treatment and all but the Medical Protection Society recommended that they should also be able to give an effective refusal . |
| 29 | On reflection I regret my use in In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 22 , of the keyholder analogy because keys can lock as well as unlock . |
| 30 | There is ample authority for the proposition that the inherent powers of the court under its parens patriae jurisdiction are theoretically limitless and that they certainly extend beyond the powers of a natural parent : see for example In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 25B , 28G . |