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Children can decide their medical treatments under Victoria’s unique advance directive laws

  • Written by Carolyn Johnston, Lecturer Health Law & Ethics, Deakin University
imageRespecting the autonomy of young people in their health-care choices is important.Aaron Burden/Unsplash, CC BY-SA

We’re all afraid of a time when we might lose the capacity to decide what medical treatments to accept or refuse. This is why Australian governments have promoted advance care planning, which involves discussing and expressing...

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