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Parents can choose child's treatment
BMJ 1998; 317 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.317.7166.1102a (Published 24 October 1998) Cite this as: BMJ 1998;317:1102- Clare Dyer, legal correspondent
A local council and an NHS trust which tried to use the child protection system to send a 13 year old boy with the chronic fatigue syndrome for psychiatric treatment against his parents' wishes backed down in the face of a High Court challenge last week.
Lawyers for the boy, who can be named only as B, sought a judicial review in the …
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