You can always -- provided you are sane, sober, and alert -- decline treatment or even just check yourself out of the hospital "against medical advice." Genera

You 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.