Force here is more browbeating the shit out of the patient. Doctors and nurses can get pretty damned insistent when you want to leave.
Deestan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What is the premise? Most countries, US included, does not grant doctors, nurses or any medical professionals or staff the power to hold people against their will.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
randomdeadguy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Uhm… “Cognizance” can be revoked. Involuntary hospitalization is real. I lived it. It is allowed.
Deestan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sorry to hear that. Sounds awful.
But yes, am aware. I understood the scenario as detaining cognizant patients.
randomdeadguy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No sweat. It was awful, but better than what I would’ve done to myself. I just didn’t want readers to think they can’t be cared for against their will. Emergency room staff are trained look for signs of abuse and self abuse. It doesn’t matter how aware a patient is if they can’t be left alone without deliberately harming themselves.
sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Protocol. Come into the hospital with SI or HI for example, your freedom gets temporarily revoked and you get to stay in the padded room with a sitter until a psych assessor deems you without risk of killing yourself or others. There are very few phrases that will land you in that position.