Dr Sheffield Has Found That Forcing His Patients to Take

question 29

Multiple Choice

Dr. Sheffield has found that forcing his patients to take medication has caused a problem with being able to treat them effectively. This problem is likely to be that ____.

• A) patients who are forced to take medication tend to become overmedicated and can't focus on therapy
• B) he becomes so exhausted from forcing treatment on the patients that his own personal resources become depleted and he can't focus on their therapy
• C) it is illegal in all cases to force treatment on anyone who is unwilling to embrace it
• D) patients who are forced into treatment resist it, which nullifies the potentially beneficial effects of therapy

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