Fri Nov 12, 2021 – 2:05 pm ESTFri Nov 12, 2021 – 2:29 pm EST
MARIETTA, Ohio (LifeSiteNews) – An Ohio is claiming that her husband is being held against his will by a hospital which insists he asked to die there.
Isaac Martin, 51, went to Marietta Memorial Hospital in Ohio one month ago to get treated for pneumonia. According to his wife and power of attorney, Cindy Carpenter, Isaac was immediately put on a ventilator, given excess amounts of sedating drugs, coerced into signing a piece of paper declaring he wants to stop medical treatment, and has since been refused to be allowed to go home or be transferred to another facility.
Micah Moreland, Isaac’s patient advocate, who has been working with the family to help advocate for Isaac’s rights, says the actions of the hospital constitute “false imprisonment” and “medical battery.” Medical battery is defined as “the intentional violation of a patient’s right to direct their own medical treatments.”
“[While he was under the influence of sedating drugs] they were coercing him to have palliative care, he had agreed to that but he wasn’t really ‘with it’,” Moreland told LifeSiteNews.
“[Afterwards he told
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