In a 1979 Massachusetts court case, the court ruled that hospitalized mental patients have ______.
A) a right to refuse medication in any situation
B) a right to refuse medication except when it is an emergency in which the patients' behavior poses physical risks to themselves or others
C) a right to refuse only medications deemed by the court to be "high-risk" medications
D) no right to refuse medications that their caregivers deem a necessary and appropriate part of treatment
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Q66: In modern law, there is (are) _
Q67: _of patient refusals to take medication are
Q68: Legal protections ensuring patients' rights to refuse
Q69: About _ percent of patients refuse medication.
A)
Q70: People acquitted by reason of insanity _.
A)
Q72: Society has long held to the doctrine
Q73: As an aftermath of the Hinckley verdict,
Q74: In the 1979 case of Rogers v.
Q75: The public _ the proportion of defendants
Q76: The public perception of the insanity plea
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