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The purpose of this article is to attempt to present the medical law institution of medical confidentiality, defining it, highlighting its most important features and then contrasting it with the right to medical information of a patient's relative. As a competing right with...

Medical staff should treat the patient as an equal participant in the therapeutic procedure and not as someone of lesser importance who is expected to submit to the rules they impose, which is not so obvious today. These individuals should relate ...

The Mental Health Protection Act, which has been in force in Poland for 15 years, is described by experts on the subject as a legal act that clearly guarantees respect for the rights and freedoms of a mentally ill person. The aforementioned Act does not exhaust the issue of protection ...

In Polish legislation and deontology at the beginning of the 20th century, there was no mention of patient autonomy in the course of treatment. However, over the years, and above all the significant increase in patient awareness, the nature of healthcare changed. The patient could increasingly...

One of the basic rights of the patient is the right to information about his/her condition, treatment and possible complications. In order for the patient to be able to make the best decision for him/herself about further treatment, he/she must be given full and understandable information about...

Throughout history, patients in psychiatric institutions have often been inadequately treated. These individuals have been isolated, humiliated and excluded. On the other hand, treatment often goes against subjective/agent positions and the rights of people with mental disorders to...

Patients' rights, being an integral part of human rights in a broad sense, define the relationship between a patient and an institution or a person providing medical services. The aim of this work is to present a catalogue of patient rights guaranteed in acts of statutory rank and...

The fact that the possibility of performing a medical procedure depends on the patient's consent demonstrates the importance of this institution. The requirement to obtain consent for the provision of a medical service is regulated by the provisions of the Constitution and the laws on medical professions and rights ...

For several years now, patient rights have been the subject of increasing social policy interest in the world, and increasingly in our country. The aim of this article is to identify the various sources of threats to the human patient, which are at the same time the cause of the increasing...

The rights of the dying person should be an integral part of the overall rights of the patient. It is important to recognise that these are norms linked to the end of a person's existence, and as such should receive special attention from those providing medical or nursing care....

A patient's right to be informed about his or her health is one of the patient's rights regulated by the provisions of the Act of 6 November 2008 on Patients' Rights and Patients' Ombudsman. In certain circumstances (when the patient is under 16 years of age, unconscious or...

On April 16, 2011, an international scientific symposium was held on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the School and Institute of Public Health of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Jagiellonian University Medical College entitled "Public Health in Europe".....

This article addresses the protection of the personal good of privacy in the context of hospitalised patients. The issues addressed are the patient's right to respect for their private and family life and the lack of respect for this right as a result of the restrictions...

Human dignity is the highest humanistic value, which is given fundamental importance in Polish law. It has been elevated to constitutional status and is protected by numerous provisions, both civil and criminal. Respect for dignity has...