Judge Orders Patient With Hospital Phobia to Have Lifesaving Cancer Surgery

Doctors have been given permission to force a cancer sufferer with a terror of hospitals to undergo lifeline surgery. In a landmark ruling, a senior judge found that the 55-year-old woman, identified only as PS, is so ill that her need for treatment outweighed her refusal to have her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed.She has so far failed to turn up for the operation, saying her phobia of hospitals and needles prevents her from doing so - despite being told she will die without it.'

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