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No, a forced medical intervention would involve holding someone down and forcibly injecting a substance, forcing them to take a pill or submit to an operation.
by osigurdson 4y ago
No, a forced medical intervention would involve holding someone down and forcibly injecting a substance, forcing them to take a pill or submit to an operation. This is much more correctly characterized as coercion.
- nerdponx 4y agoYou are inventing a semantic distinction that does not exist in common usage.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- osigurdson 4y agoI suppose that is possible though I think using the same term to describe very different things begs for the creation of a new term. There appear to be concepts in medicine that touch upon this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_treatment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_treatment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_coercion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_coercion