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      • If a health professional provides treatment to you without your consent, you can register a complaint by calling their professional organization. In serious cases, such as medical malpractice, you may want to consult a lawyer about your right to sue.
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      Consenting or refusing health treatment - Legal Line

  2. www.legalline.ca › legal-answers › consenting-orConsenting or refusing health treatment - Legal Line

    Treatment without consent. If a health professional provides treatment to you without your consent, you can register a complaint by calling their professional organization. In serious cases, such as medical malpractice, you may want to consult a lawyer about your right to sue.

  3. educaloi.qc.ca › en › capsulesAdults Who Can't Make Medical Decisions on Their Own

    • Planning Ahead
    • Who Can Provide Substituted consent?
    • Respecting The Patient’S Best Interests
    • The Court

    People can express their wishes in advance in case they become unable to make medical decisions. For example, people can create advance medical directives. If a patient becomes unable to make medical decisions and the patient has advance medical directives, the doctor must follow the instructions in the directives.

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    If the patient doesn’t have advance medical directives, these people can consent for the patient: 1. the patient’s legal representative (mandatary or tutor), if there is one 2. if there is no legal representative, the patient’s married or civil-union spouse, or common-law partner 3. if there is no spouse or partner, or if the spouse or partner can’...

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    The person consenting for the patient must act in the patient’s bestinterests.The benefits of the treatment must be greater than the risks involved. The person must also take the patient’s wishes into account. Patients might have made their wishes known ahead of time, for example through a living will or a protection mandate.

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    In some situations, the court must make medical decisions for patients who can’t consent on their own. The court’s permission is needed in these cases: 1. it’s impossible to get someone else to consent for the patient 2. the person who can give substituted consent refuses to consent for no good reason 3. the patient clearly refuses care required fo...

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  4. settlement.org › ontario › healthWhat are my rights as a patient? - Settlement.Org

    Apr 4, 2023 · As a patient or health care consumer in Ontario, you have both rights and responsibilities. If a health care professional violates your rights, you can make a complaint. Your rights are protected by laws such as the Health Care Consent Act, the Long-Term Care Act and the Mental Health Act.

  5. legalrightsforyouth.ca › medical-rights › consentConsent and Confidentiality | Legal Rights for Youth

    If your life or health is seriously threatened and it appears you aren’t capable of making health care decisions, health care providers may be able to treat you without consent and do whatever is necessary to try and save your life or health.

  6. www.verywellhealth.com › do-patients-have-theDo Patients Have the Right to Refuse Treatment? - Verywell Health

    Jan 18, 2024 · If the emergency responders are unaware of or do not have access to legal decrees—such as a do not resuscitate (DNR) order —they can deliver treatment without legal repercussions. There are other instances in which a person cannot refuse treatment even in non-emergency situations.

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  8. www.cmpa-acpm.ca › en › advice-publicationsCMPA - Consent: A guide for Canadian physicians

    When the patient or substitute decision maker is unable to consent and there is demonstrable severe suffering or an imminent threat to the life or health of the patient, a doctor has the duty to do what is immediately necessary without consent.

  9. www.findlaw.com › injury › medical-malpracticeInformed Consent and Unauthorized Treatment - FindLaw

    Jun 12, 2024 · Informed consent is when a patient gets proper information about and consent to treatment. The law gives patients the right to receive information before medical treatment. Informed consent is a doctor's ethical and legal obligation. State laws often take a patient-centered approach.

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