2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
CHAPTER 77 - DEATH WITH DIGNITY ACT
Section 44-77-100. Substitution of willing physician or health care worker for one unwilling to effectuate declaration.
A physician or health care facility electing for any reason not to participate in the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures in accordance with a declaration executed under this chapter shall make a reasonable effort to locate a physician or health care facility that will effectuate the declaration and has a duty to transfer the patient to that physician or facility. A failure by a physician to effectuate the declaration of a terminal patient constitutes unprofessional conduct if the physician fails or refuses to make reasonable efforts to effect the transfer of the patient to another physician who will effectuate the declaration. If a nurse or other employee of a health care facility informs the physician or health care facility that the employee does not wish to participate in the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from a declarant, the physician or health care facility shall make a reasonable effort to effectuate the declaration without the participation of the employee.
HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 341, Section 8; 1988 Act No. 586; 1991 Act No. 149, Section 10.
