For half of my confinement, the health care providers had neither my consent nor a court order allowing care. Some of them chose to touch me against my will anyway. I presented a signed/sworn affidavit with the signatures of two doctors, another nurse, an HSI detective, and a federal judge showing they had acted before they had a court order or consent. The state board rejected the claim, stating medical care providers can provide care involuntarily even when the patient is alert/oriented/capable of informed denial of consent even when there is no order and in my case even when there was no evidence of altered mental state or mental disorder.
That is, the state board's claim is a health care provider can do what they damn well please under the banner of health care without consent, regardless of the (lack) of presence fo a court order or other legal basis otherwise. There's simply no punishment.
The interesting thing is, when they finally did get a warrant to act without consent, they refused to do anything further. By then, their legal department got involved and realized I was going to sue the ever living shit out of them when nothing was found. That is, in the end it was discovered for some health care providers they never gave a single shit about the rights of the patient; the only thing that talks is money.
Sort of. It's more complicated than providers necessarily jumping through the formal hoops every time; it can be a mix of informal coercion, asking leading questions to prompt the necessary "red flag" answers, and putting up practical barriers to the person leaving even if they're "voluntarily" admitted on paper. [1] [2] [3] [4]
[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/intake
[2] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/largest-u...
[3] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/pub...
[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9937983/