There's also often little punishment for a provider acting outside of consent or court order. For half of my confinement, the health care providers had neither

There's also often little punishment for a provider acting outside of consent or court order. For half of my confinement, the health care providers had neither my consent nor a court order allowing care. Some of them chose to touch me against my will anyway. I presented a signed/sworn affidavit with the signatures of two doctors, another nurse, an HSI detective, and a federal judge showing they had acted before they had a court order or consent. The state board rejected the claim, stating medical care providers can provide care involuntarily even when the patient is alert/oriented/capable of informed denial of consent even when there is no order and in my case even when there was no evidence of altered mental state or mental disorder. That is, the state board's claim is a health care provider can do what they damn well please under the banner of health care without consent, regardless of the (lack) of presence fo a court order or other legal basis otherwise. There's simply no punishment. The interesting thing is, when they finally did get a warrant to act without consent, they refused to do anything further. By then, their legal department got involved and realized I was going to sue the ever living shit out of them when nothing was found. That is, in the end it was discovered for some health care providers they never gave a single shit about the rights of the patient; the only thing that talks is money. Final note: To others reading this who find themselves in a similar situation, learn from someone who learned the hard way. "I don't consent" or "patient rights" or "get a warrant" don't work, even though they should be said for posterity. Here's what does: "lawsuit", "HIPAA complaint", "I will file a grievance", "I will be informing the medical board" (yes many of these may not work, but the doctor may not want the hassle even when they do have an order authorizing care.) Your denial of care has to involve something that makes things extremely inconvenient for them, simple appeal to ethics and patient rights do not work. THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE.