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CONSERVATORSHIP OF MORRISON

Docket No. A037920.

206 Cal.App.3d 304 (1988)

253 Cal. Rptr. 530

Conservatorship of the Person of THELMA MORRISON. LOUISE CHILDS, Petitioner and Appellant, v. BEN ABRAMOVICE et al., Objectors and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Five.

November 30, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John R. Weinstein for Petitioner and Appellant.

Louise H. Renne, City Attorney, Dennis Aftergut, Assistant City Attorney, and Gerard J. Donnellan, Deputy City Attorney, for Objectors and Respondents.

OPINION

KING, J.

(1a) In this case we hold that a conservator can authorize the removal of a nasogastric feeding tube from a conservatee who is in a persistent vegetative state, but cannot require physicians to remove the tube against their personal moral objections if the patient can be transferred to the care of another physician who will follow the conservator's direction...

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