51.  The tragedies included suicides and deaths from refusing medical treatment, supposedly under Falun Gong influence.

52.  They claimed there was no real difference between refusing treatment and getting medical help in speeding death.

53.  Three others refused treatment.

54.  Under the bill, however, patients must first appeal to an independent panel of medical experts that will decide whether the health insurer was justified in refusing treatment.

55.  Unlike his brother, who refused treatment, Chris sought counseling at his school until space opened in the clinic, where he could get psychiatric and crisis counseling.

56.  Watson refused treatment and Davis was transported to Grandview Hospital, where she was treated and released.

57.  When Miss Emerson refused the aggressive drug treatment he recommended, Milliken referred the case to the state.

58.  Patients would be guaranteed an independent review of disputed decisions by HMOs and other health plans to put off or refuse treatment recommended by physicians.

59.  Ahmad explained that RSCM must accept any patient who has been refused treatment by other hospitals for medical and economic reasons.

60.  Authorities have rushed hundreds of hunger-striking inmates from the prisons to hospitals, but most of them have refused treatment.