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To the Editor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Richard A. Lazar
Affiliation:
Portland, Oregon
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1991

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Endnotes

1. Ayres article, p. 52.

2. Ayres article, p. 54. provider undertake to determine the nature, extent, or finality of a court order without legal advice.”

3. Ayres article, p. 55

4. A competent person has a constitutionally protected liberty interest in refusing unwanted medical treatment under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health, 497 U.S. 110 S.Ct. 2841 (1990).