Wow. Who said any thing about trapping. Both you an OP are dancing across the line of opposing arguments:
A cognizant patient is above all a free person. A free person is free to accept and to deny care, whatever may come.
I don’t understand the logic playing mental gymnastics to make a patient stay at a unit
You can’t make a patient stay unless they are mentally incompetent, a minor, or in a state where leaving could pose a threat to safety. This would likely require a court order. The patient is always free to simply leave.
So… both of your arguments boil down to, “Why should medical professionals care?”
In finished with this thread.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
if a patient goes to a hospital and is suicidal they almost always are made to stay because they are deemed “a threat to their safety”.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes, suicidal people are a risk to themselves, and sometimes others too. My aunt almost died when a suicidal person veered head on into her car. Hospitals are right to hold people through crises.