Coats Tim - Professor of Emergency Medicine wrote:
> First decision is whether or not patient is competent to take their own
> decisions.
ahh, but should we use those 'decisions' as an indicator of whether the
patient is competent to make their own decisions.
My point being that a decision to end one's own life might be made by a
fully competent person - and that intent alone, perhaps, should not be used
to rule them incompetent .....but it is often used to do that, in my
experience.
A difficult area.
Regards all
Jel
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