[ars]

> I can easily see this whole situation occurring because of poor communication and the culture of paternalism in medicine.

I can see it starting that way, but there is an absolute line the hospital should have never crossed: People have the right to chose what medical treatment they want.

They crossed the line.

[luddaite]

We don't know the full story and likely never will. What if the doctors were correct in their assessment that the patient was unfit to make medical decisions and that she was being coerced by parents to act against her own best interest? I would be interested in looking at her medical record to try and understand what was really going on but that is unlikely to ever happen. There is really bad information asymmetry here because the hospital is legally prohibited from releasing any medical information but the patient can choose to reveal as much or as little as they wish.

[ars]

> What if the doctors were correct in their assessment that the patient was unfit to make medical decisions and that she was being coerced by parents to act against her own best interest?

The article asks that very question, and answers that she was making her own medical decisions on everything except being able to leave the hospital.

The hospital doesn't get to have it both ways.

Read here: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/13/health/mayo-clinic-escape-2-e...

"That hadn't jibed with the captain of investigations for the Rochester police. Sherwin said it didn't make sense that Mayo staffers told police Alyssa had been making her own decisions, yet in the discharge note, they stated she wasn't capable of making her own decisions."

And the two Judges they went to both agreed, and refused to let the Mayo become her guardian. Not to mention the hospital could have tried to get a different family member to be her guardian - but that's not what they did, they wanted themself to be the guardian.

And on top of all of that when they went to a different hospital the Dr's there agreed with the parents!

> because the hospital is legally prohibited from releasing any medical information but the patient can choose to reveal as much or as little as they wish.

That's not correct: The hospital said they would talk if the patient signed a form consenting - so she did (which they were probably not expecting), and they still refused to talk. That's pretty damning.

> I would be interested in looking at her medical record to try and understand what was really going on but that is unlikely to ever happen.

The article makes it clear enough: The parents argued with a Dr. who got a hissy fit basically and decided to cut them out of all decisions as a form of revenge.

The Mayo is losing a TON of respect here, and they should publicly fire this Dr. before it gets worse.

[tssva]

The hospital is only legally forbidden from sharing the patient's medical records without the patient's consent. The patient legally granted permission for the hospital to release medical information to CNN and the hospital has continued to refuse to do so.