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LANE v. CANDURA

6 Mass. App. Ct. 377 (1978)

376 N.E.2d 1232

GRACE R. LANE vs. ROSARIA CANDURA.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 26, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen R. Katz, guardian ad litem, for Rosaria Candura.

Paul F. Hennessey for Grace R. Lane.

Ronald B. Schram, for Symmes Hospital & others, interveners.

Present: HALE, C.J., KEVILLE, & ARMSTRONG, JJ.

BY THE COURT.

This case concerns a 77-year old widow, Mrs. Rosaria Candura, of Arlington, who is presently a patient at the Symmes Hospital in Arlington suffering from gangrene in the right foot and lower leg. Her attending physicians recommended in April that the leg be amputated without delay. After some vacillation, she refused to consent to the operation, and she persists in that refusal.1

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