§ 34-12D-18 Patients able to make decisions regarding medical care--Effect upon rights.

SD Codified L § 34-12D-18 (2019) (N/A)
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34-12D-18. Patients able to make decisions regarding medical care--Effect upon rights. This chapter does not affect the right of a patient to make decisions regarding the use of life-sustaining treatment, so long as the patient is able to do so, or impair or supersede a right or responsibility that a person has to effect the withdrawal or withholding of medical care.

Source: SL 1991, ch 273, § 17.