You can absolutely REFUSE any treatment. They don't tell you this, but you absolutely can. Hospitals even have a patient's advocate you can speak with. When I was recovering from Covid last year, over the last few days in the hospital they wanted to IV me again. Well, I was tired of the damn thing being empty and the nurses too busy to put in a new bag. The damn thing would beep at me and drove me absolutely nuts. They are only so many times you can call a nurse and when they don't come you get a little pissed.
Anyway, my urine wasn't as clear as they thought it should be, and they wanted to put me BACK on an IV. I asked them why? I was feeling much better and hoping to get out at any day. They told me why, and I told them I didn't want one. She looked at me with a curious expression and asked me if I was refusing. Like it was some kind of magic word. I told her YES. She said ok, and they didn't put in the IV. She didn't even argue with me. It was like I found some kind of secret hospital hack.
I did a video EEG at a hospital for 2 1/2 days for an epilepsy diagnosis. One of the nurses wanted to inject me with a blood thinner so I "didn't have problems with blood clots" being in a hospital bed for that long. When I'm at home I'm on the computer sitting down all day. If I was going to have a stroke, I'd have had one already.
You can absolutely REFUSE any treatment. They don't tell you this, but you absolutely can. Hospitals even have a patient's advocate you can speak with. When I was recovering from Covid last year, over the last few days in the hospital they wanted to IV me again. Well, I was tired of the damn thing being empty and the nurses too busy to put in a new bag. The damn thing would beep at me and drove me absolutely nuts. They are only so many times you can call a nurse and when they don't come you get a little pissed.
Anyway, my urine wasn't as clear as they thought it should be, and they wanted to put me BACK on an IV. I asked them why? I was feeling much better and hoping to get out at any day. They told me why, and I told them I didn't want one. She looked at me with a curious expression and asked me if I was refusing. Like it was some kind of magic word. I told her YES. She said ok, and they didn't put in the IV. She didn't even argue with me. It was like I found some kind of secret hospital hack.
I did a video EEG at a hospital for 2 1/2 days for an epilepsy diagnosis. One of the nurses wanted to inject me with a blood thinner so I "didn't have problems with blood clots" being in a hospital bed for that long. When I'm at home I'm on the computer sitting down all day. If I was going to have a stroke, I'd have had one already.