Forced_Medications

Forced Medications To insure that all patients have rights, President Bill Clinton passed a bill in September 1996. This bill was appropriately called The Patient’s Bill of Rights. This bill states that no patients can be physically, emotionally, sexually, or financially abused or neglected. One of the rights in this bill is the patient’s right to take part in one’s own medical treatment plan. Unfortunately not every patient has the mental capacity to do this. A patient may be uneducated about the plan or mentally impaired. This is when patient advocates need to be employed. patient, medication, patients, forced, rights, mental, treatment, mentally, discharged, medications, health, bill, should, right, people, patient’s, others, believe, being, take, sell, community, cases, care, violated, states, one, force, dr, disabled, case, called, advocacy, violence, themselves