This comment responds to the comment by Jonathan Youngs in St George's Healthcare NHS Trust v P(1) entitled 'Can the courts force the doctor's hand?' Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 99-111, doi: 10.1093/medlaw/fwv042. It clarifies an important factual error in that comment as to the nature of the order made by the court, and it provides further observations upon the respective role of courts and clinicians in cases involving medical treatment decisions.
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