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Originally Posted by Libertine
Patients have to consent to treatment. If they explicitly do not consent, there's nothing you can do as a doctor.
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Originally Posted by kane
It may be different in the UK, but I think here in the US if a doctor thinks you are mentally ill they can get a psyche evaluation and then treat you as if you were not capable of taking care of yourself or deciding for yourself. I'm not saying this person would have had that happen to her, but clearly she was crying out for help. If you want to die, you kill yourself, you don't make a spectacle of it which is exactly what she did.
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Yup in the US they can do a couple of things. One being getting an injunction so that they can prove that you are of not sound enough mind to make such a choice. If you have a living will or a few other such contracts, they can also strong arm the legal decision maker into what they way. Then of course if they get a body in with some life, no family etc. They can do whatever the wish to stabilize the person until identity and family is reached. A note alone would not prevent them from doing it, unless they were on your side of the fence.