进了急诊，一周后可否强行要求出院

公公是直肠癌晚期，手术过，上月底一起和婆婆一起来美国探亲。。。最近出现了呕吐，一天几次，每天几乎都是躺在床上，但是自己还能走动。像老人现在的情况，如果送医院急诊室，按常理肯定住院治疗，而且肯定不能治愈出院了（因为是癌症晚期），能否一周后等他们要回国时（航班肯定不能提前了），强行要求出院？（病人本人和家属可以签字）

In a US hospital, they will never do s.th against patient's wishes. If you tell them that you're giving up treatment and would like to go home, they'll be happy to send you home at whatever time you request.

再者，我的公公是个性格中有胆小怕事一面的人，到了医院，像他这种情况，治疗肯定不会很简单，治疗环境又与国内不同（包括语言，至少他自己不能直接与医护交流，他在国内住院的时候就曾经擅自拔过针头，治疗上不是很配合），会不会在精神上给他极大的负担？

You cannot predict what's going to happen when he is in the hospital. However, you can be sure that your father-in-law will receive better care than he would in China. If the doctors know that he has end-stage cancer and you only request comfort care, they'll make him very comfortable and in less pain. Depending on where you live, the hospital may have nursing staff who speaks Chinese, or you and your husband can help them communicate with the doctors and nurses. I think he'll like there better.

再加上连续的治疗，一周后想拔下那些营养针，身体上应该也会不能承受？到时候如果精神身体完全垮下来就想走也走不成了！

If something happens in the hospital, it's better than happens in the airplane where you have very limited space and resource, and no one can help you much.

至少他目前的情况还能生活自理，虽然我们明显地看出他每天都在衰退，如果不出意外，一周后还应该可以撑着回去。但是送了医院会不会就出不来了？

When you take your FIL to the hospital, let them know that your plan, that you want him to make it to China, the physician can give him some treatment to improve his condition and get him ready for the trip. No matter what they do, they're the professionals and know how to buy more time with medicine or other procedures, it's better than just wait at home and wondering what's going to happen. Take him to the hospital and let him get the care he needs. Don't worry about money, US hospital won't turn a sick patient away because of money. Register under your dad's name, let them do whatever is necessary, the hospital will eat up the bill since he doesn't have anything.

Good luck and best wishes!

Jiamei