A hospital can detain an “extraordinarily vulnerable” man with suspected bowel cancer for the purpose of performing an urgent colonoscopy on him against his wishes, the High Court has ordered.
The orders were made in the context of a petition to have the man made a ward of court and based on the view of two doctors the man lacks capacity to make decisions on his treatment. Having noticed blood in his stool for a considerable period, and feeling weak and tired, the man had gone last month to the hospital’s emergency department where he was triaged and a nurse noted he was unwell, pale and dehydrated. A blood test revealed his haemoglobin was critically low and he was transfused with several blood units.
BRUH!! 💀
NO!
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