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To learn more about why some patients refuse treatment, go over these reasons: Financial concerns, fear, misinformation, and personal values and beliefs may all be reasons. When you ask patients these questions, you may discover a solution or a new approach to the problem.
at 331 (Stevens, J., dissenting) ( [A] competent individuals decision to refuse life-sustaining medical procedures is an aspect of liberty protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. ).
If you are 18 or older you have the option of making what is known as an advance decision (also known as a living will). This is a decision to refuse particular medical treatments for a time in the future when you may be unable to make such a decision.
A patients right to the refusal of care is founded upon one of the basic ethical principles of medicine, autonomy.
Doctors must respect a patients decision to refuse treatment, even if they do not agree with it or when it could lead to permanent injury or death.
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Understand their story Try to understand the patient/familys story before you try to change their mind. This means suspending your attitude toward their decision and as openly and non-judgmentally as possible, understanding the reasons for their decision.
Competent patients have a right to refuse treatment. This concept is supported not only by the ethical principle of autonomy but also by U.S. statutes, regulations and case law. Competent adults can refuse care even if the care would likely save or prolong the patients life.

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