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2019 Code of Virginia
Title 54.1 - Professions and Occupations
Chapter 29 - Medicine and Other Healing Arts
§ 54.1-2987. Transfer of patient by physician who refuses to comply with advance directive or health care decision
Universal Citation: VA Code § 54.1-2987 (2019)
An attending physician who refuses to comply with (i) a patient's advance directive or (ii) the health care decision of a patient's agent or (iii) the health care decision of an authorized person pursuant to § 54.1-2986 shall make a reasonable effort to transfer the patient to another physician and shall comply with § 54.1-2990.
This section shall apply even if the attending physician determines the health care 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; 2009, cc. 211, 268.
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