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Is it true that if you are a voluntary patient you can check yourself out of the hospital?
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Usually: However if you are deemed to lack capacity to do so, that is a different matter. If you are deemed to be at imminent harm to self or others, different states have procedures/ laws to address that.
Answered 5/29/2017
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