Say someone (in the U.S.) without any family at all winds up at a hospital and goes comatose, needing to be on life support. Would they be on life support indefinitely or would anyone have the authority to ‘pull the plug’ so to speak? Sorry it’s kind of a dark question but these are the kinds of things keeping me up at night haha.
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In the UK the consultant in charge of the patient will make the decisions re care and can decide to stop treatment if they think it is in the patients best interest.
In fact we can over rule families if we think that the family are causing the patient harm and not acting in their interest although this very rarely happens.
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