George Annas, America's leading patient rights advocate, presents them in this revised, up-to-date edition of his groundbreaking classic. This book explores all aspects of being an informed patient:
- hospital organisation
- hospital rules
- emergency treatment
- admission and discharge
- patient rights movement
- informed consent
- operation
- obstetric care
- human experimentation and research
- privacy and confidentiality
- caring for the dying
- death, post-mortem and organ donation
- medical malpractice