Judge tells doctors they can enforce treatment on mentally ill woman

A 30-year-old woman didn’t want to have a treatment by the doctors for aplastic anemia. Aplastic anemia is a condition in which her bone marrow doesn’t produce enough blood cells.

The doctors knew that without the emergency treatment she could die, but when medics tried to treat her she became distressed and screamed for about 40 minutes till two nurses hold her down. But why is it that she didn’t want to get treated? The woman dislikes being touched by man and she doesn’t want any physical intervention.

The doctors of the medical team went to court to ask the judge to give permission for the treatment. The Court of Protection gave permission to the doctors to force her to undergo the potentially life-saving treatment, which is administered through a vein in the heart and lasts for five days. They think it is in the patient’s best interests and it would give her the opportunity to live.
Some critics are against the decision of the court but the judge ruled that the patient did not have the capacity to decide whether to undergo the treatment or not.

In my opinion it was a wise decision of the court to give permission to the doctors to force the woman to undergo the treatment. Doctors always decide in the best interests of a patient and they want to save lives. It was good of the doctors to involve the court in this situation.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8074306/Judge-tells-doctors-they-can-enforce-treatment-on-mentally-ill-woman.html