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Do you have the right to refuse medical care? Who and what allows doctors to treat you if you’re unconscious or unable to indicate what medical treatment you want? The answers to these and other questions are in a BC law called the ''Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act'' | Do you have the right to refuse medical care? Who and what allows doctors to treat you if you’re unconscious or unable to indicate what medical treatment you want? The answers to these and other questions are in a BC law called the ''[http://www.bclaws.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96181_01 Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act]''. | ||
The Act applies to adults – people 19 and over – but not to children. And it doesn’t apply to patients who are involuntarily admitted to hospital for psychiatric treatment under the ''Mental Health Act''. For information on consenting to and refusing psychiatric treatment as an involuntary patient, check script [[Hospitalizing a Mentally Ill Person (Script 425)|425]], called “Hospitalizing a Mentally Ill Person”. For the law on children and consent to medical care, check script [[Children and Consent to Medical Care (Script 422)|422]], called “Children and Consent to Medical Care”. | The Act applies to adults – people 19 and over – but not to children. And it doesn’t apply to patients who are involuntarily admitted to hospital for psychiatric treatment under the ''[http://www.bclaws.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96288_01 Mental Health Act]''. For information on consenting to and refusing psychiatric treatment as an involuntary patient, check script [[Hospitalizing a Mentally Ill Person (Script 425)|425]], called “Hospitalizing a Mentally Ill Person”. For the law on children and consent to medical care, check script [[Children and Consent to Medical Care (Script 422)|422]], called “Children and Consent to Medical Care”. | ||
==A doctor or health care provider can treat you only if you consent== | ==A doctor or health care provider can treat you only if you consent== | ||