Sentence examples for refusing surgery from inspiring English sources

In this article, the case of an elderly man who is refusing surgery is presented to illustrate such difficulties.

Dr. Joan Teno, a member of the hospital's ethics committee, said that even though the man was bright and articulate, with no history of mental illness, his internist thought he did not understand the risk of refusing surgery.

They'll likely be heading there again this summer with this drama about a young doctor trying to find out the identity of a woman who died after refusing surgery.

The Dardenne brothers – twice winners of the Palme d'Or – are back with their La Fille Inconnue, or The Unknown Girl, with Adele Haenel, about a doctor who sets out to find the identity of a young woman who died after refusing surgery.

After refusing surgery and spending several thousand dollars on the device treatments, the man died Dec. 14, 2004, of cancer, leaving a wife and three young children.

Patients refusing surgery and treated with dCRT instead were excluded from analyses.

The patient refused surgery.

Three patients had successful carotid subclavian bypass, and 1 patient refused surgery.

The operation followed months of legal wrangling over whether the parents could refuse surgery and let nature take its course.

Recently, positive results in bracing patients with idiopathic scoliosis (IS) above 45° who refused surgery have been presented in a retrospective study.

It's hard to imagine the tipping point isn't coming, that cancer patients being refused surgery is a political scandal that can be ignored.