54.1-2987 - Transfer of patient by physician who refuses to comply with advance directive or health care decision. - Virginia Statutes

§ 54.1-2987. Transfer of patient by physician who refuses to comply withadvance directive or health care decision.

An attending physician who refuses to comply with (i) a patient's advancedirective or (ii) the health care decision of a patient's agent or (iii) thehealth care decision of an authorized person pursuant to § 54.1-2986 shallmake a reasonable effort to transfer the patient to another physician andshall comply with § 54.1-2990.

This section shall apply even if the attending physician determines thehealth 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.)