What is the main argument used by patients and their advocates in favour of the unlimited right of all patients to refuse treatment?
A) Most treatments are not proven to be 100 percent effective.
B) Many medications, especially antipsychotic medications, have side effects that seriously compromise everyday functioning and quality of life.
C) Without that right, patients are vulnerable to abuse or dangerous experimental procedures, such as those that occurred with the indiscriminate use of prefrontal lobotomies in the 1930s.
D) All people have a fundamental right to make decisions about their own treatment, even if doing so is not in their own best interest.
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