Judge upholds doctors’ “do not resuscitate” recommendation in event of patient’s condition getting worse

A High Court judge has upheld the decision by several doctors not to resuscitate or ventilate a 55 year old Muslim man in a “minimally conscious state” should his condition worsen, over-riding the objections of his family.

The father of eight from Greater Manchester, named only as “Mr L,” was severely brain damaged after a third cardiac arrest in July and was initially thought to be …