Yes, they could just ask....but the problem is if they know the person refuses to be weighed & they just "ask" & the person says no.....they either they have to tell them that they don't have a choice at that point or they don't get the information that they really need to treat the person.

Just easier for the Dr to say that the weighing is mandatory when they absolutely need the information from a person they know doesn't usually willingly cooperate with being weighed.

Yes......when I first went into my Dr's office when the nurse does all the weighing & I had just been in the previous week, I choose NOT TO get weighed....but when the Dr came in.......I had been loosing so much weight before that that he didn't give me a choice & yes, he required me to get weighed....not for meds because he wasn't prescribing me any.....but because he was trying to monitor my health side of my weight loss & needed to know how much I was loosing. The blood tests became mandatory also.

My pain specialist always weighs me.....I'm on a very high dose of meds with him.....luckily when I lost so much it didn't have a bad effect on the high dose I was on.....but it definitely could have been a very serious problem.