Practice question
An unconscious, unaccompanied emergency patient needs care beyond Hospital A’s capability. Its physician administers the necessary emergency treatment, stabilizes the patient, establishes that transfer entails less risk than continued confinement, and obtains Hospital B’s agreement. Must transfer necessarily await the patient’s personal consent?
- Yes, unconsciousness creates an absolute transfer prohibition
- Yes, even if delay increases the risk of death
- No, the statute allows transfer without patient consent in the specified incapacity situation, subject to the other safeguards
- No, because consent is never relevant to any transfer
- Yes, unless the patient first deposits the full receiving hospital bill
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2017/ra_10932_2017.html — RA 10932, amending BP 702 as previously amended by RA 8344, especially current sections 1–6, emergency care, transfer, sanctions, presumption and complaints.
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