DOCTOR HAS LAST WORD
LONDON CORONER’S ADVICE TO PUBLIC PATIENTS MUST OBEY LONDON, September 11. “Protests will be of no avail. If your doctor says that you must go to hospital to have your appendix removed you would be well advised to let him have the last word without any fuss. You may set rather a high value upon your appendix and you may not care lor that particular hospital; indeed, you may not have a kindly feeling for hospitals at all, and. If you must lose your appendix, you would rather have It done in the privacy of your home.” The patient had no vote or say in the matter, according to Dr. R. Guthries, the East London coroner, who, using the words quoted, declared today chat if a doctor made up his mind to send a patient to hospital, the Patient had no right to decide otherwise. If the doctor’s instructions were ignored he ought to throw up the case.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 772, 19 September 1929, Page 9
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