Vera Lúcia Raposo writes for the "Peruvian science magazine PENALES"

Entitled "The System of Arbitrary Medical-Surgical Interventions in the Portuguese Penal Code", the consultant associate in Health practice, lectures on a tendency that it has been claiming to punish the doctor who does not follow the will of his patient. As she states "if traditionally the criminal law punishes the doctor who does not act , thus violating its duty of care, today begins gradually to punish those acting against the will - express or simply presumed - of the patient. This new trend clearly influences the Portuguese Penal Code.