Alaska Senator Fred Dyson has an op-ed in the Alaska Dispatch defending his proposed SB 172. He writes: "In a recent meeting with the Providence Executive Leadership Team, I was told that the doctor always has the last word on a DNR order, regardless of patient consent. Providence maintained this was true even if the patient had full capacity to make all their own health care decisions and understood the risks and benefits of an attempt at CPR." Dyson continues: "The question is whether current law gives a patient, with capacity, the right to make a DNR order ineffective. I maintain it does, and SB 172 seeks to clarify the meaning of existing language in the law."
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Alaska Senator Defends Ban of Unilateral DNR Orders
Alaska Senator Fred Dyson has an op-ed in the Alaska Dispatch defending his proposed SB 172. He writes: "In a recent meeting with the Providence Executive Leadership Team, I was told that the doctor always has the last word on a DNR order, regardless of patient consent. Providence maintained this was true even if the patient had full capacity to make all their own health care decisions and understood the risks and benefits of an attempt at CPR." Dyson continues: "The question is whether current law gives a patient, with capacity, the right to make a DNR order ineffective. I maintain it does, and SB 172 seeks to clarify the meaning of existing language in the law."
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