Must doctors honor living wills and a health care agents decisions?
YES, as long as the requests are medically reasonable. In Arizona, a doctor who refuses a directive as a matter of conscience must transfer the patient to another doctor who will honor the patient’s and agent’s decisions. Health care providers may try to put it onto the agent or family to find an alternative provider if the provider is unwilling to comply with a patient s directive or his or her agent s directions. Arizona law makes it the legal obligation of the provider to do this.
