Example sentences of "[to-vb] to treatment " in BNC.
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| 1 | There continues to be some doubt as to whether anyone has authority to consent to treatment in the case of an adult , in the absence of statute . |
| 2 | The court or parents for their part can refuse to consent to treatment A or B or both , but can not insist on treatment C. The inevitable and desirable result is that choice of treatment is in some measure a joint decision of the doctors and the court or parents . ’ |
| 3 | The court or parents for their part can refuse to consent to treatment A or B or both , but can not insist upon treatment C. The inevitable and desirable result is that choice of treatment is in some measure a joint decision of the doctors and the court or parents . |
| 4 | In Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 the central issue was not whether a child patient under the age of 16 could refuse medical treatment if the parents or the court consented , but whether the parents could effectively impose a veto on treatment by failing or refusing to consent to treatment to which the child might consent . |
| 5 | In the light of the quite different issue which was before the House in Gillick 's case I venture to doubt whether Lord Scarman meant more than that the exclusive right of the parents to consent to treatment terminated , but I may well be wrong . |
| 6 | The argument that W. , or any other 16- or 17-year-old , can by refusing to consent to treatment veto the treatment notwithstanding that the doctor has the consent of someone who has parental responsibilities , involves the proposition that section 8 has the further effect of depriving such a person of the power to consent . |
| 7 | The most promising argument in favour of W. having an exclusive right to consent to treatment and thus , by refusing consent , to attract the protection of the law on trespass to the person , lies in concentrating upon the words ‘ as effective as it would be if he were of full age . ’ |
| 8 | I now prefer the analogy of the legal ‘ flak jacket ’ which protects the doctor from claims by the litigious whether he acquires it from his patient who may be a minor over the age of 16 , or a ‘ Gillick competent ’ child under that age or from another person having parental responsibilities which include a right to consent to treatment of the minor . |
| 9 | I accept that the words ‘ or not ’ in this passage suggest that Lord Scarman considered that the right to refuse treatment was co-existent with the right to consent to treatment . |
| 10 | In logic there can be no difference between an ability to consent to treatment and an ability to refuse treatment . |
| 11 | In those circumstances , the point had clearly been reached when the court should be prepared , in W. 's own interests , to overrule her refusal to consent to treatment , and we therefore ordered that she should be treated at the appropriate London unit . |
| 12 | The patient may elect for and consent to treatment B and thereby impliedly decline to consent to treatment A. Again there will be no problem . |
| 13 | Where the problem arises is in the comparatively rare situation in which an adult patient declines to consent to treatment which in the clinical judgment of those attending him is necessary if irreparable damage is not to be done to his health or , in some cases , if his life is to be saved . |
| 14 | The Commission is multi-disciplinary and it exists to provide independent medical opinions to consent to treatment ; to keep the powers of detention under review ; to prepare a Code of Practice ; and to visit and interview detained patients and investigate individual complaints . |
| 15 | He had a successful hernia operation but was a regular visitor to Harley Street as additional deep-seated groin trouble failed to respond to treatment . |
| 16 | The 1941 paper from Oxford led to some comments in the press , which included reference to Fleming and to Oxford , but Fleming 's first substantial clinical observation with penicillin appears to have occurred in August 1942 , when a patient , an employee of Fleming 's brother 's optical firm , was failing to respond to treatment for meningitis in St Mary 's Hospital . |
| 17 | But England manager Geoff Cooke was forced to make a dramatic change late last night after Hunter failed to respond to treatment following a soccer injury sustained in club training on Tuesday . |
| 18 | Lawrence had been drafted into the lineup following a finger injury suffered by Chris Lewis , while Botham was called up at the 11th hour to win his 100th cap when Derek Pringle 's sore back failed to respond to treatment . |
| 19 | Since then an association has been found between the carriage of resistant strains and failure to respond to treatment with the corresponding antibiotic . |
| 20 | But they were n't aware of a dressing-room drama as John Muldoon failed to respond to treatment for a hamstring injury . |
| 21 | The injury has failed to respond to treatment and he has decided to retire . |