摘要: KIE: A California Superior Court judge denied the request of William Bartling, a 70-year-old competent patient suffering from several potentially fatal disorders, to have court order hospital withdraw his life-sustaining ventilator. Annas contends that accepted misinterpretation by Bouvia and Barber cases, effect treatment refusal nonterminal, individual is suicide imposes criminal liability on physicians. In determining Bartling was ambivalent in decision prognosis optimistic, seemed see himself as medical maker rather than protector Bartling's autonomy.