MEDRADSC 3Y03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Mastectomy, Ac Power, Bleeding
14 Sep 2017
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Society has a need for children to be able to make health care decisions. 1 homeless children need access to health care. Parents may not be accessible or competent to consent to their child"s health care. Children may not want their parents to know about drug, alcohol or pregnancy related issues. There is legal and academic support for the right of children to make autonomous decisions with respect to their health care. 2 however, what these decisions cover and who can make them is not clear. Whether or not a minor has capacity and is therefore competent to consent to medical treatment is a question of law. The question posed by this paper is whether the decision of a gillick competent" child can and should be overridden by the court?6. * associate lecturer, health law research program, faculty of law, queensland university of.
