医疗徒劳性法律通过限制临床医生和医院来保护代理决策者

Thaddeus Mason Pope1

  • 1Mitchell Hamline School of Law, 875 Summit Avenue, Saint Paul, MN, 55105, USA. Thaddeus.Pope@mitchellhamline.edu.

概括

医疗无用法律保护代孕,但州法律往往优先考虑延续生命的价值观,而不是临床医生的最佳利益价值观. 这种法律框架迫使临床医生遵循代理决定,而不是强加自己的决定.

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