Health Sciences 3101A/B Chapter 4: workbook chapter 4 notes

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3101A/B
• Professor: Robert Solomon

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Part 1: factors negating consent: the law recognizes several situations in which a person"s otherwise valid consent may be negated (vitiated) If a patient consents to treatment based on a fraudulent belief that a health professional was either responsible for creating or was aware of, the consent may be negated. It was not until 1998 that the supreme court of canada rejected this principle, but 2 conflicting tests subsequently emerged: r. v. mabitor (2012) In 2012, the supreme court resolved this conflict in r. v. Public policy: traditionally, the canadian courts have recognized that consent may be negated on. Healthcare law chapter 4 notes factors negating consent, treatment without consent, & end- of-life decision making: norberg v. wynrib (1992) If a person has or may have a communicable disease that is a virulent disease, a moh may order the individual to forthwith submit to medical care and treatment.