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Nursing Home Advocates Challenge Treatment Law - Prof. Mort Cohen, Bob Egelko
Nursing Home Advocates Challenge Treatment Law - Prof. Mort Cohen, Bob Egelko
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Advocates for nursing home patients are challenging a California law that allows doctors to decide when a patient is mentally incompetent to refuse treatment.
A lawyer for California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, which filed the suit Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court, said doctors have used the 1992 law to administer mind-altering drugs, put patients in physical restraints and, in one case, remove a feeding tube.