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


B

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