The Facts
Elderly woman refuses emergency surgery unless she can change
her will
In January 2020, at the age of 92, a woman was hospitalised with
a life-threatening leg condition.
During the day she underwent two unsuccessful procedures to
restore blood flow to the leg, and at about 2pm she was given
anaesthetic agents and other drugs.
Around 6:30pm, the doctors informed her that she required
emergency surgery on her leg, and she signed a consent form for
that surgery.
However, immediately before her scheduled 8pm surgery, the woman
adamantly refused consent to the operation unless she could change
her will.
Change of will substantially disinherits daughter
The woman's doctors knew that if they did not perform the
surgery quickly, they would be forced to amputate her leg due to
gangrene. So, they obliged her request, writing out a document
titled "Change of Will", capturing her instructions that
she wished to bequeath her house, the substantial part
