This television show my wife is watching has doctors breaking all kinds of laws

unreal. Telling a woman she has to accept treatment. All she would have to do is ask one of the cops to arrest the doctor for assault and attempted kidnapping. Bet he would back off then.

she said it's not real. I didn't think it was. Either a comedy or drama.

and about as close to how an actual hospital works as Bush is to a genius.

So don't worry--that's not how things work in the real world.

I'm well aware doctors can not force anyone to purchase medical services from them. It's called kidnapping as well as theft if they tried to bill them or their insurance company, and you know they would.

to insult my profession and my intelligence, I'll let you crawl back into the hole you came out of.

Cheers.

I have no reason to believe you do.

battery and she was threatened by a medical professional in a hospital a few weeks ago here in the US.

The staff on a med-surg floor made her roommate wait 30+ minutes for pain-relief, and then wouldn't give her the meds until the nurse had given her a long lecture on how to describe and evaluate pain (as if you are in a learning mode at that point), and then coupled the pain med with an augmenting drug she expressly said she didn't want. They did everything possible to demean the patient and her husband, inluding kicking him out for the night when he had the right to stay.

My friend was told she had to take a shot of something she was told was one drug, but she knew it hadn't been prescribed for her. She thought they may have been trying to sedate her for the night. So the nurse came in and started asking her questions about whether she wanted resuscitation, etc if, and my friend asked her, well, is there a DNR order on file? When the nurse said no, my friend told her, then you need to resuscitate. It was clear the nurse was trying to scare her into doing her bidding.

by "have to" accept treatment did the doc just mean that she would die if she didn't accept it?

FORCING someone to accept any treatment would be battery under the law, unless the patient was found to be not mentally competent (for example, a patient bleeding to death in shock who wanted to decline treatment but was obviously not thinking rationally because of low blood pressure/low blood count).

and to go somewhere. As if she was a dog he was ordering around instead of a free human being.

die...yup-- that doctor was soooo out of line. not.