Illinois § 6

§ 6.

Physician Responsibilities. An attending physician who has been notified of the existence of a declaration executed under this Act, without delay after the diagnosis of a terminal condition of the patient, shall take the necessary steps to provide for written recording of the patient's terminal condition, so that the patient may be deemed to be a qualified patient under this Act, or shall notify the patient or, if the patient is unable to initiate a transfer, the person or persons described in subsection (d) of Section 3 in the order of priority stated therein that the physician is unwilling to comply with the provisions of the patient's declaration. In the event of the patient's death as determined by a physician, all medical care is to be terminated unless the patient is an organ donor, in which case appropriate organ donation treatment may be applied or continued temporarily. (Source: P.A. 93-794, eff. 7-22-04.)