Abstract
EDITOR,--Petra Wilson, the legal contributor to the debate on doctors' legal position in treating temporarily incompetent patients, adopts a pessimistic position concerning the legal justification for treating the two patients discussed.1 The intuition of most doctors would suggest that these incompetent patients should be spared the immediate consequences of their disastrous decisions. Fortunately, in Re F the House of Lords confirmed that it was possible for a doctor to give …
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