An upstate appellate court has ordered medical authorities to insert a feeding tube into a severely disabled man, against the wishes of his parents and the advice of his physician.
The Appellate Division, Fourth Department, found that while the patient’s parents met the threshold requirements to withhold life-sustaining treatment, they could not show that inserting the tube would impose the "extraordinary burden" required under SCPA 1750-b. In an unsigned memorandum, the court reversed a decision of Acting Supreme Court Justice W. Patrick Falvey (See Profile).
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