Informed consent and the mental patient: California recognizes a mental patient's right to refuse psychosurgery and shock treatment.

Ethical Considerations in Respecting Patient's Autonomy and Right to Refuse Treatment: A case Report

One of the most challenging aspects of treatment is when patient seriously refuses the desired by treating physician. On the other hand, refusing treatment is a condition of the patient's right to be aware, but does such a right also imposes a moral obligation on the treating physician or not? This study discusses the diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosis disease. This article attempts to p...

Constitutional law--an involuntarily detained mental patient's informed consent is invalid for experimental psychosurgery.

Riese v. St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center.

An involuntarily committed mentally ill patient was held to retain the right to refuse treatment with antipsychotic drugs, unless the committing court specifically denies the patient this right and authorizes a conservator to make an informed consent decision. The California Court of Appeal reversed a lower court ruling which had allowed the forcible injection of medication into a patient who ...

The right to refuse psychiatric treatment: a clinical perspective.

Within recent years, psychiatrists and lawyers have increasingly debated the right of psychiatric patients to refuse treatment. Predictably, the right has advocates as well as opponents who, although often uninformed, are still adamant. Just last year the Academy was admonished that a right to refuse psychiatric treatment was "one right too many,". since it would be "antithetical" to the right ...

Involuntary patients' right to refuse medication: impact of the Riese decision on a California inpatient unit.

On June 22, 1989, the California Supreme Court allowed the Appellate Court decision in the right to refuse treatment case, Riese v. St. Mary's Hospital to stand. The court ruled that absent a judicial determination of incompetence, antipsychotic drugs cannot be administered to involuntarily committed mental patients in non-emergency situations without their informed consent. Much concern was ex...