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2.30 This seemingly uncontroversial principle stipulates that the choices undertaken by competent, well‐informed patients should or even must be respected. In many jurisdictions this is reflected in law. In Canada, for instance, it would be illegal for a doctor to ignore a competent patient’s refusal of treatment, even if respecting those wishes would ultimately result in harm to the patient. Note that there is an in‐built conflict here between the first two principles and this principle.