Question 8 (part 2) · LEK · Consent and treatment without consent
You are a doctor in hospital with a 17-year-old patient under your care, who requires surgery. The consent was given by the patient but not the legal guardian. You ask the guardianship court located in the place of:
- A. patient’s residence.
- B. legal guardian’s residence.
- C. surgery.
- D. you do not ask the court.
- E. whereabouts of actual guardian.
Hint
Polish law links the competent guardianship court to a place connected with the medical procedure itself, not with where the family lives.
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