Any doctor attempting to harm one of my kids will need a doctor.
Or > if I am feeling merciful < a mortician.
“Affirming” an errant mental obsession is not “care”.
It is no different than “affirming” an addiction. It is medical malpractice.
This is not a call for a lack of sympathy and compassion for a child whose mind is making a mistake. But true compassion requires the truth, not suppression of the truth, just to avoid the difficult path of fighting the obsession.
I feel the same.
I find it hard to believe that parents are stopped by laws.
I had the same thought.
No you wont. Not that you shouldn't. You should be backed by an army of friends and neighbors taking out the doctor, his staff, his office space, his equipment, his home, his car, the hospital administrators, the chief of surgery, the intake staff, the insurance regulator, and so on.
But the reality is you won't. Your 18+ year old son or daughter can do this and you cannot do squat except complain and perhaps get arrested for complaining because the doctor and hospital and staff and administration and media and your friends and neighbors will take your complaints as threats.
And it is a damned shame.
But I for one would applaud you if you did. For what little that is worth. Which is pretty much nothing.