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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...

Respecting the rights of the patient, regardless of medical speciality, is the responsibility of every state. Patients' rights are a specific category of human rights and find their origin in their dignity. The aim of this study is to present the legal provisions on the rights of persons...

The subject of this article is a discussion of the issues related to the limitations on patient rights provided for in the legislation for the prevention and control of infectious diseases - in this case, tuberculosis. These limitations arise from the treatment of public health as...

Polish medical law has adopted the principle of equivalence in the doctor-patient relationship. In this way, medical paternalism was abandoned. The newly enacted or renewed Regulations were largely responsible for this. All Polish hospitals, including psychiatric hospitals, must ...

Patients' rights are specific in nature. They relate to an exceptional situation. The patient comes to the doctor at a time of suffering, pain, difficulty. The doctor has the knowledge and skills to treat. He has the ability to help the patient. However, treatment involves...

Pharmacists belong to a group of professions of public trust, with which the obligation of professional secrecy is closely associated. This obligation does not exist in Polish regulations for technicians. In the meantime, the patient in the pharmacy discovers secrets of intimacy. The issue...

Freedom of conscience and religion is an important value, protected in Poland both by constitutional regulation and by many acts of a lower rank. It derives from it the possibility of freely adopting worldviews, including religious views, and then their...

When reading Blazej Kmieciak's book, the question arises: what are children's rights for? The answer to this question can be twofold. To protect them as a being as unique as any human being, or to protect other values like the well-being of the family or...