Posted by Larry Hoover on May 27, 2005, at 18:40:28
In reply to Re: I feel like doing a bad bad thing *trigger*, posted by Deneb on May 27, 2005, at 13:48:44
> The ER nurse threatened to call a code on me the next time I tried to escape...would that have been a code white?
If you were physically fighting to escape, yes. If you simply disappeared without anyone seeing, that's a missing patient. By law, the police must be notified, and you will be apprehended.
> I wasn't violent though.
You were on a 72-hour assessment, right?
> He wouldn't have really put in restraints would he?
Without doubt. It is their job.
> I have the right to refuse treatment.
The Mental Health Act over-rides your decisions. That's why I wanted you to read it closely.
Until you have passed the 72-hour hold, you have no rights. Once a doctor declares you a risk to yourself or others, you have to endure the 72-hours (unless the doctor decides to release you).
After 72-hours, if you are then declared an involuntary patient, you may then attempt to re-assert your right to self-determination. The 72-hour law is in place to permit doctors to make expedient decisions about saving you from yourself
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> What a mean thing to do...he would have traumatized me.You OD'd. I think the trauma was an ongoing situation. Until a doctor ok's your leaving, you will be treated as per doctor's orders. Police will be called, if necessary, to restrain you.
You need to understand the law. Here's the link again:
http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Statutes/English/90m07_e.htmRead Regulations 7.2 and 8.1:
http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Regs/English/900741_e.htmLar
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