Oklahoma § 63-3101.9 - Physician or health care provider unwilling to comply

§ 63-3101.9. Physician or health care provider unwilling to comply

with act.

An attending physician or other health care provider who is

unwilling to comply with the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act shall as

promptly as practicable take all reasonable steps to arrange care of

the declarant by another physician or health care provider when the

declarant becomes a qualified patient. Once a patient has

established a physician-patient relationship with a physician or a

provider-patient relationship with another health care provider, if

the physician or other health care provider refuses to comply with a

medical treatment decision made by or on behalf of the patient

pursuant to the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act, or with a medical

treatment decision made by such a patient who has decision-making

capacity, and if the refusal would in reasonable medical judgment be

likely to result in the death of the patient, then the physician or

other health care provider must comply with the medical treatment

decision pending the completion of the transfer of the patient to a

physician or health care provider willing to comply with the

decision. Nothing in this section shall require the provision of

treatment if the physician or other health care provider is

physically or legally unable to provide or is physically or legally

unable to provide without thereby denying the same treatment to

another patient. Nothing in this section may be construed to alter

any legal obligation or lack of legal obligation of a physician or

other health care provider to provide medical treatment, nutrition,

or hydration to a patient who refuses or is unable to pay for them.

Added by Laws 1992, c. 114, § 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by

Laws 1995, c. 99, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1995; Laws 1998, c. 164, § 1,

emerg. eff. April 28, 1998; Laws 2006, c. 171, § 8, emerg. eff. May

17, 2006.