Showing posts with label Informed consent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Informed consent. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Why Eloise Dupuis Was Not Perfectly Informed About the Risks of Refusing a Blood Transfusion

PERFECTLY INFORMED OR MISLED?
Last month, Quebec Health Minister Gaetan Barrette said that Eloise Dupuis was "perfectly informed" about the risks of refusing a blood transfusion. The 27-year-old Jehovah's Witness died after refusing treatment deemed critically important and necessary to save her life. And the question has to be asked, are lawmakers failing to protect the populace?

Saturday, October 29, 2016

Did Eloise Dupuis Truly Know the Risks of Refusing a Blood Transfusion?

A TRAGIC CASE has been in the news lately of a beautiful young woman just starting out in life, expecting a baby, fulls of dreams and plans for the future. All that came crashing down when Eloise Dupuis turned down a life-saving blood transfusion and died. She left her child motherless and her young husband without a wife.

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