1. Every patient has a right to refuse medical treatment.
2. In logic there can be no difference between an ability to consent to treatment and an ability to refuse treatment.
3. Professor Glennerster considered carefully the argument that expensive treatments might be refused by fund holders and found no evidence of that yet.
4. You have an absolute right to refuse medical treatment.
5. The patient has the right to refuse treatment.
6. And some doctors, perhaps especially holistic physicians like Dr. John Borduik of Spectrum Medical Arts in Arlington, are sympathetic to patients who refuse treatment.
7. And yes, the conflict between the healer and the person who refused medical treatment on religious grounds set us up for a gusher of guilt.
8. Another who also complained of ankle pain refused treatment, Watts added.
9. Anyone who refused treatment was denied benefits.
10. A doctor refuses a treatment for a sick child.