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Fla. Stat. § 395.1057 (2025)

Patients’ right to choose COVID-19 treatment alternatives.

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395.1057 Patients’ right to choose COVID-19 treatment alternatives.—A hospital may not interfere with a patient’s right to choose COVID-19 treatment alternatives as recommended by a health care practitioner with privileges at the hospital if the health care practitioner has obtained informed consent from the patient in accordance with s. 456.62. Any hospital that violates this section by preventing a health care practitioner from exercising his or her sound judgment is subject to agency disciplinary action under s. 395.1065(2).
History.—s. 4, ch. 2023-43.

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