IN THE MATTER OF DINNERSTEIN


6 Mass. App. Ct. 466 (1978)

380 N.E.2d 134

IN THE MATTER OF SHIRLEY DINNERSTEIN.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

June 30, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald B. Schram (Daniel T. Roble with him) for the petitioners.

Beverly W. Boorstein, guardian ad litem, for Shirley Dinnerstein.

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


ARMSTRONG, J.

This case, which comes to us on a report (without decision but with extensive findings of fact) from a judge of a Probate Court, turns on the question whether a physician attending an incompetent, terminally ill patient may lawfully direct that resuscitation measures be withheld in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest where such a direction has not been approved in advance by a Probate Court.

The patient is a sixty-seven year old woman...

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