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If a patient with a life-threatening illness refuses treatment, should his wishes be respected?
Even if the addicted person refuses treatment, family members can get help and support from an organization like Al Anon.
Every so often a few times a year a patient at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) hospital in Portland refuses treatment in the emergency department from Esther Choo, M.D. '01, M.P.H. It's not because they consider her 15 years' medical practice too paltry, or her School of Medicine degree insufficient but because she is not white.
Putting more money into the current failed system will do nothing to prevent the next Elliot Rodger, nor will it help the millions of families caring for a loved one with an acute untreated psychiatric illness who refuses treatment and lacks insight into their condition.
Meanwhile the life of the hospital goes on in ways that weren't that interesting the first 10 times we saw them: crash carts roll past in slow motion, doctors have sex in the break room, a woman refuses treatment for religious reasons.
If the person with parental responsibility refuses treatment and doctors believe that decision could lead to death or severe permanent injury an application can be made to the court of protection to overrule them.
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