Yeah, that's kind of my point. Current medical ethics ISN'T very advanced, but if they'd been talking to some of the people at the cutting edge of discussing these kind of scenarios, they could've gotten someone telling them to grab Bruce or someone else trustworthy to try and shore up Tony enough so he would feel safe taking medication. They DID have a time limit, but even back then, there were people talking about medical ethics with suicide that weren't 'just get a court order'.