Oklahoma Code § 63-3101.9

with act.
An attending physician or other health care provider who is
unwilling to comply with the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act shall as
promptly as practicable take all reasonable steps to arrange care of
the declarant by another physician or health care provider when the
declarant becomes a qualified patient.  Once a patient has
established a physician-patient relationship with a physician or a
provider-patient relationship with another health care provider, if
the physician or other health care provider refuses to comply with a
medical treatment decision made by or on behalf of the patient
pursuant to the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act, or with a medical
treatment decision made by such a patient who has decision-making
capacity, and if the refusal would in reasonable medical judgment be
likely to result in the death of the patient, then the physician or
other health care provider must comply with the medical treatment
decision pending the completion of the transfer of the patient to a
physician or health care provider willing to comply with the
decision.  Nothing in this section shall require the provision of
treatment if the physician or other health care provider is
physically or legally unable to provide or is physically or legally
unable to provide without thereby denying the same treatment to
another patient.  Nothing in this section may be construed to alter
any legal obligation or lack of legal obligation of a physician or
other health care provider to provide medical treatment, nutrition,
or hydration to a patient who refuses or is unable to pay for them.
Added by Laws 1992, c. 114, § 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1992.  Amended by
Laws 1995, c. 99, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1995; Laws 1998, c. 164, § 1,
emerg. eff. April 28, 1998; Laws 2006, c. 171, § 8, emerg. eff. May
17, 2006.

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