Anorexic patients should be allowed to refuse treatment if they are assessed as having capacity to make that decision, according to University of Queensland Law PhD candidate who won a recent faculty-level competition to pitch his thesis topic in a three minute pitch.
Sam Boyle, PhD candidate from the TC Beirne School of Law, was both the winner and a People’s Choice winner of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law Three Minute Thesis competition on Friday for presentation: Capacity and treatment refusal: How law does and should deal with adults with anorexia nervosa who refuse treatment.