Abstract
With infants and very young children there is no question that they lack competence for all health care decisionmaking; perhaps, there might be no controversy as well that an exceptionally mature 17-year-old is competent to consent to a relatively simple and straightforward medical treatment imposing no significant risks. But adolescents and pre-adolescents constitute one of the largest and most important classes of patients of questionable or borderline competence for the health care decisions they commonly face.
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49 Ariz. L. Rev. 143 (2007)
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