(755 ILCS 35/6) (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 706)
Sec. 6. Physician Responsibilities. An attending physician who has
been notified of the existence of a declaration executed under this Act,
without delay after the diagnosis of a terminal condition of the patient,
shall take the necessary steps to provide for written recording
of the patient's terminal condition, so that the patient may be deemed to
be a qualified patient under this
Act, or shall notify the patient or, if the patient is unable to
initiate a transfer, the person or persons described in subsection (d) of
Section 3 in the order of priority stated therein that the physician is
unwilling to comply with the provisions of the patient's declaration. In the
event of the patient's death as determined by a physician, all medical care is
to be terminated unless the patient is an organ donor, in which case
appropriate organ donation treatment may be applied or continued temporarily.
(Source: P.A. 93-794, eff. 7-22-04.)
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