2006 Code of Virginia § 54.1-2987 - Transfer of patient by physician who refuses to comply with advance directive or treatment decisio...

54.1-2987. Transfer of patient by physician who refuses to comply withadvance directive or treatment decision.

An attending physician who refuses to comply with (i) the advance directiveof a qualified patient or (ii) the treatment decision of a person designatedto make the decision by the declarant in his advance directive pursuant to 54.1-2984 or (iii) the treatment decision of an authorized person pursuant to 54.1-2986 shall make a reasonable effort to transfer the patient to anotherphysician and shall comply with 54.1-2990.

This section shall apply even if the attending physician determines thetreatment requested to be medically or ethically inappropriate.

(1983, c. 532, 54-325.8:7; 1988, c. 765; 1992, cc. 748, 772; 2000, cc. 590,598.)