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ST. MARY'S HOSP. v. RAMSEY

No. 85-339.

465 So.2d 666 (1985)

ST. MARY's HOSPITAL, Appellant, v. Mark RAMSEY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

March 27, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy P. Phillips, of Metzger & Sonneborn, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert P. Foley, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

David Bludworth, State Atty., and Paul O. Moyle, Asst. State Atty., West Palm Beach; for the State of Florida.

LETTS, Judge.

These emergency proceedings1 arise out of a circuit judge's decision upholding the right of a patient to refuse a blood transfusion without which the patient, might well die within a few hours. We affirm.

The task before us now is much more difficult than the one we faced in Satz v. Perlmutter, 362 So.2d 160 (Fla. 4th DCA 1978), affirmed with opinion, 379...

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