Obligations of a physician and the limits of his/her liability towards the attitudes of legal representatives that hinder or prevent the treatment of a minor patient with type 1 diabetes – legal and ethical aspects
Journal: Pediatric Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism
Year: 2025

This article examines the legal and ethical obligations of physicians towards minor patients with type 1 diabetes in situations where their legal representatives hinder or prevent treatment. This issue is gaining importance in the context of the observed increase in parents forgoing insulin therapy or follow-up visits in favor of alternative medicine. In such situations, physicians face a dilemma: how to reconcile the parents' right to decide on their child's treatment with their own obligation