The case. What should Leah be told?
Fearing that his 18-year-old daughter will value her fertility more than her life, an Orthodox Jewish father implores physicians not to seek her informed consent for surgery for vaginal cancer.
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Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, IL.
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