Question

While being treated at a forensic center, a patient refuses a brain scan for tumors. According to patient's rights, the patient _____ administered by the psychiatrist.

A. must submit to the treatment
B. has a right to reject the treatment
C. has the right to choice of treatments
D. has freedom of speech

Answer 1

Answer: has the right to reject treatment

Explanation: Because no one has to get treatment if they don’t want it

Answer 2

Answer: B. has a right to reject the treatment

Explanation:

Every adult has the right to refuse unwanted medical care or treatment. This is the right of every individual to select and know what will be done to the own body. It applies even when the person knows that without treatment chances of death will become prominent.

Patients with altered mental status and under the influence of alcohol, drug, psychiatric illness, and brain injury may not have the right to refuse the treatment.