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WONS v. PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST OF DADE COUNTY

No. 86-985.

500 So.2d 679 (1987)

Norma WONS, Appellant, v. The PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST OF DADE COUNTY, Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

January 6, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelner & Kelner and John Kelner, for appellant.

Robert A. Ginsburg, Co. Atty., and Aurora Ares, Asst. Co. Atty., for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HUBBART and BASKIN, JJ.

HUBBART, Judge.

This is an appeal by a hospital patient from a final order authorizing a public hospital to administer involuntary blood transfusions to the said patient over the latter's religious objections. As in St. Mary's Hospital v. Ramsey, 465 So.2d 666 (Fla. 4th DCA 1985), we are confronted with the question of whether a competent adult has a lawful right to refuse a blood transfusion without which she may very well...

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