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Conn. justices back forced chemotherapy on teen

January 14, 2015by Robert Whitcomb in Uncategorized tagged Connecticut Children's Medical Center

Video and text: In a very strange story, the Connecticut Supreme Court rules that a 17-year-old girl must continue to submit to chemotherapy for Hodgkins lymphoma at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center although she is trying to refuse treatment.

The case raises questions on how much a hospital should be a tool for involuntary treatment.