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SOMERVILLE, Margaret A., 1942-, Consent to Medical care: A Study Paper prepared for the Law Reform Commission of Canada, Ottawa: Law Reform Commission of Canada, 1980, viii, 186 p. (series; Protection of Life Series; Study Papers), ISBN: 0662104528 Part 2: 105-186
The Supreme Court of Canada will go ahead later this year and set a legal framework for when patients in a vegetative state can be withdrawn from life support. The court rejected a request this morning from the family of a severely ill Toronto man, Hassan Rasouli, to withdraw the case from its docket on the grounds that Mr. Rasouli recently passed into a higher degree of consciousness.
Two Sunnybrook doctors have lost their bid to unilaterally remove a severely brain damaged patient from life support, but they still have the option of going to a provincial tribunal to try to overrule his family’s wishes, the Supreme Court has decided.