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This seems like a situation where knowing a certain phrase might help. I don't know what that phrase might, but a lawyer or someone else familiar with the medi
by marze 17y ago
This seems like a situation where knowing a certain phrase might help. I don't know what that phrase might, but a lawyer or someone else familiar with the medical industry might.
Something like "I will not authorize you to perform this procedure and have notified my physician and lawyer of this, if you perform anything that I have not authorized will result in an expensive lawsuit" or something.
Anyone know what the right terms to use are? It seems in other situations there are magic words that can be used to produce immediate results.
- Kadin 17y agoYou can always -- provided you are sane, sober, and alert -- decline treatment or even just check yourself out of the hospital "against medical advice." Generally this involves signing some forms releasing the hospital from all responsibility for you. And then you can just walk out. Hospital personnel will try to strongly discourage you from doing this -- not because they're evil, but because in most situations it's a really, really bad idea. But if you just keep saying "no, I don't want treatment, I want to leave, give me the forms to sign out AMA," and you're not clearly nuts or high on morphine or otherwise impaired, you can pretty much just leave. However, unless you have a very specific reason for believing that the treatment protocol at work isn't correct or best for you, it's generally a bad idea.