Sentence examples for medically incompetent from inspiring English sources
It can hardly be a plausible principle of justice that demands that social arrangements should bring it about that slow runners have just the same chances of winning foot races as fast runners with the same desire to win, or that the medically incompetent and competent should have the same chances of becoming medical doctors and having successful careers in that profession, and so on.
When deciding on mental impairment or incapacity, there should be an assessment of its scope, its nature, its duration and its durability (drugs, medications and alcohol can all have temporary effects that could render a person medically incompetent to make decisions but these effects may not be lasting).
A court declared him medically incompetent and made his mother his guardian.
Individuals were not swabbed for HIV testing if they were physically not available (e.g., released from jail, at court, attorney visits, too ill), were deemed medically incompetent to provide consent, or opted out of HIV testing.
In the 'immediate' group (N = 108), 12 (11%) were medically incompetent to consent, compared with only 4 (4%) in each of the 'early' (N = 108) and 'delayed' (N = 107) testing groups.
In the immediate group, 5 (10% of those not swabbed in that group) were medically incompetent or did not have the capacity to consent, compared with none in the 'early' and in the 'delayed' testing groups.
