{"id":7416,"date":"2017-08-04T11:10:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T18:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7416"},"modified":"2018-03-03T21:12:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T05:12:05","slug":"116-victorian-patients-refuse-lifesaving-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7416","title":{"rendered":"116 Victorian patients refuse lifesaving treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Advertiser<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Grant McAurthur<\/p>\n<p>FOUR Victorians a week are taking legal action to prevent doctors giving them lifesaving treatment, with the number expected to multiply next year when new regulations make refusing care easier.<\/p>\n<p>As the Victorian parliament prepares to debate voluntary euthanasia laws in coming months, the <em>Herald Sun<\/em> can reveal 116 patients have already used legally binding certificates to ban hospitals prolonging their lives this year; however, the measures stop short of assisting them to die.<\/p>\n<p>The issue arose last month when a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/monash-medical-centre-doctors-dilemma-over-elderly-death-wish\/news-story\/1d8314cc9141af7ed29655fd550e1613\" rel=\"nofollow\"> failed suicide pact <\/a>saw emergency doctors at Monash Medical Centre forced to save an elderly patient against her wishes because no legally binding Refusal of Treatment Certificate had been lodged to reinforce the demands. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/news\/national\/116-victorian-patients-refuse-lifesaving-treatment\/news-story\/4ff4b79e69be2eaef77272619062f0b0\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Advertiser Grant McAurthur FOUR Victorians a week are taking legal action to prevent doctors giving them lifesaving treatment, with the number expected to multiply next year when new regulations make refusing care easier. As the Victorian parliament prepares to debate voluntary euthanasia laws in coming months, the Herald Sun can reveal 116 patients have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7416\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;116 Victorian patients refuse lifesaving treatment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,9],"tags":[521,2616,563,443],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-news","tag-australian-medical-association","tag-refusal-of-treatment-certificates","tag-suicide","tag-victoria"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>116 Victorian patients refuse lifesaving treatment - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7416\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"116 Victorian patients refuse lifesaving treatment - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Advertiser Grant McAurthur FOUR Victorians a week are taking legal action to prevent doctors giving them lifesaving treatment, with the number expected to multiply next year when new regulations make refusing care easier. 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